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Copyright, 1914, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie 


MAY 21 1914 




3nbex for |9oung jFolfesi 

Aesop’s Choice of the Bread Basket 104 

Against the Goverment 22 

Alexander’s Cup of Water 70 

Alexander’s Fate 26 

Alphonso V and the Peasant 128 

Andronicus and the Lion 67 

Animal Nurses of the Aged 94 

Animal Travellers 71 

Arabian Hospitality 123 

Arguments, Bad and Good 126 

Arion on the Dolphin 59 

Arnold von Winkelried’s Bravery 7 

Aurelian at Tyana loi 

“Baltimore and Ohio’s” Doom 88 

Becoming Field- Marshal 124 

Benvenuto Cellini’s Dog 52 

Bravery in Extremities 1 1 

Cardinal’s Net 31 

Cardinal’s Supper 42 

Celtic Present to Caesar 21 

Clerk who Knew too Much 24 

Coal and Compass 136 

Collie Dogs as Shepherds 58 

Coolness in Action iii 

Cooperation in U. S., and Switzerland 84 

Crow and Fox 74 

Croy, Prince of, Disappoints Himself 121 

Damocles, Sword of 73 

Death of Hazed Student 28 

Doctor’s Bargain 53 

Dropping the Meat for the Shadow 80 

Five-legged Calf 126 

Florian, the Engraver 116 

Fooling the People 6 

Forty-first Bottle of Wine 97 

Fox and Stork 66 

Frogs, Noisy though Few 75 

Gautama’s Education 9^ 

Gaynor, Mayor, Swept on 13 

Giotto’s Difficulties 68 

Grain of Mustard Seed 89 


9n)iex tor goung jFolfei — 2 

Grant’s Brand of Whiskey 5® 

Gruesome Fate of the Sleepy 9 

Handsome is as Handsome Does 19 

Hare and the Tortoise 132 

Hazers Punished 28 

Henpecked Husband 27 

Hindu and his Wife 41 

Honest Criminal’s Pardon 5 

Honesty in Dogs 83 

Horses and their Habits 47 

Hyenas and Skunks 33 

Hypocrisy in Animals 35 

Idle Wheel-dog 103 

Infected Clothes 129 

Intelligent Pig 55 

Joan of Arc 138 

Dr. Johnson, at Uttoxeter Market 63 

Joseph II, and the Blacksmith 79 

Joseph II, and the Sergeant 48 

Junot, How he Started in Life iii 

Lafontaine’s Baked Apple 43 

Lincoln’s Difficulties in Learning 32 

Lincoln’s Kindness 3 

Lincoln’s Letter to the Tempted Delegates. ... 4 

Lincoln’s Passes to Richmond 17 

Lincoln’s Religious Slave-Owner 19 

Lincoln’s Sweet Revenge 100 

Lincoln’s Treatment of Aunt Sally 114 

Lincoln’s Use of his First Fee 96 

Lincoln’s Misplacing the Whetstone 15 

Lord’s Prayer in Congress 16 

Madame Malibran’s Searching Generosity. ... 122 

A Marshal as a Critic 44 

Martin, Saint, His Generosity 77 

Marvels of Cooperation 84 

Memorandums that were too Light 36 

Merchant of Venice 117 

Michael Angelo’s David’s Nose 81 

Modern Martyrdom 93 

Monkey in Church 99 

Monkeys of Bindrabund 102 

Montargis, Faithful Dog of 109 


Jnbex tor gouns Jfolfesi — 3 

Napoleon’s Fate 26 

Napoleon and the Sentinel 127 

Net, the Cardinal’s 31 

Nicholas’s Arbor Army 78 

North and South Winds 137 

Obedience as Lesson of Forest School 95 

Origin of Model High School. . 14 

Paris Omnibus, Scene in 45 

Persevering Elephant 62 

Persian Widow 54 

Pippa Passes 86 

Plundered Miser 133 

Prodigal Son, (Buddhist) 134 

Punctuality of the Pension Building Mouse. . 56 

The Purse and its Contents 82 

Resentment of Elephants 107 

Resources of Cooperation 72 

Robbing his own House i 

Saved by Animal Sentries 60 

Scott’s Pardon 10 

Self-devouring Animals 34 

Shylock’s Pound of Flesh 117 

Singing Monkeys 119 

Skunks and Hyenas 33 

Spanish Prisoner 112 

Spectacles for Reading 38 

Stealing the Borrowed Pig 39 

Stolen Horse 85 

Stork and Fox 66 

Thirsty Starling 130 

Tortoise and the Hare 132 

Trade Rat 65 

Treasure Hid in a Field 120 

Usurper Punished 108 

Voltaire’s Shoes 69 

Weeping Child 5 ^ 

Who Started this Fuss? 23 

Who is on the Lord’s Side? 131 

Winds, North and South 137 

Wow-wow Monkeys 119 

The Wounded Rook 105 

The Zurich Bell-ringer 40 


Snbex for parents! 

Ability Conquered by Persistence 132 

Absent-Mindedness Costly 42 

Against the Government 22 

All Service Ranks the Same 40 

Animals that Hum 119 

Appreciating Modern Facilities 32 

Appreciating Your Parents 63 

Arbor Day 78 

Bad Promises Best Broken lOi 

Better than their own Valuation 4 

Biter Bit 18 

Biting one’s Nails 34 

Bluffing Easily “Called” 129 

Bravery in Extremities ii 

Care for Parents 94 

Care in Bargains 53 

Cash Only 36 

Charity of Self-help 134 

Class Mirrors the Teacher 99 

Class Monitors 58 

Compassion in the Power of the Poorest 91 

Confidants should be Well Chosen 48 

Consolation in the Power of Influence 86 

Cooperation Helps Both 72 

Dangers of Bad Posture 127 

Dangers of Boasting 88 

Dangers of Rough Play 105 

Dangers of Sky- Larking 28 

Dangers of Throwing 102 

Deference to the Aged 114 

Difficulties are only Spurs 68 

Diplomacy Necessary 81 

Disputes more Expensive than Loss 8 

Distinction has its Price 124 

Divine Guidance 138 

Do your Duty, and Trust in God 122 

Envying the Teacher 73 

Even Animals Cooperate no 

Even Animals Despise a Shirk 103 


Snltex for parents — 2 

Even Animals Faithful 109 

Even Animals Practise Self-Control 83 

Even Animals Punctual 56 

Exercise Worth Paying For 79 

Fair Dealing Instinctive 65 

First Money Lincoln Earned 96 

Flattery has its Price 74 

Flattery or Criticism 44 

Fooling the People 6 

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves. ... 128 

Going Straight Back Home 71 

Gratitude Instinctive 67 

Gruesome Fate of the Sleepy Soldiers 9 

“Hamlet” with Hamlet Left Out 97 

Handsome Is as Handsome Does 19 

Heroism at Home 93 

Honest Criminal’s Pardon 5 

Hospitality and Self-Control 123 

How Brave You Can Become iii 

How to Choose one’s Burdens 104 

How to Get the Truth 43 

How to Learn Resignation 89 

How to Persuade 137 

Humility Pays 31 

Hypocrites among Animals 35 

If it Gives you Any Satisfaction ! 27 

Importance of Daily Duties 69 

Ingenuity Triumphs over Difficulties 130 

Inhuman Bargains Void 117 

In Union there is Strength 1 13 

Kindness of Lincoln 3 

Knowing Too Much 24 

Knowing What you Want 41 

Learning Cures Cruelty to Animals 112 

Learning versus Supplies 38 

Merit above Advantages 61 

Miracles of Cooperation 84 

Misunderstanding hides Virtues 52 

Natural Arguments not always Sound 126 

Never Satisfied 5 ^ 

Noisy though Few 75 


Jnbex for ^arenti — 3 

None too Lowly to Help 

Not Wise to seem too Grasping 

Obedience the Law of Life 

Pardon and its Price 

Perseverance 

Personality more Important than Position .... 

Politeness Pays 

Possibilities of Human Persistence 

Power and Wisdom Both Needed 

Power of Music 

Practical Sympathy 

Principles, not Personalities 

Professional Borrower 

Quibbling 

Quick Thinking Necessary 

Refusing Privileges 

Regardlessness Never Safe 

Results above Methods 

Results of Playing with Alarm Signals 

Ridicule Never Safe 

Ridiculousness of Hear-Say Knowledge 

Riskiness of Lies 

Robbing His Own House 

Sanctity of Home 

Self-Control and Hospitality 

Self-Control more Important than Conquest of 

Others 

Self-Sacrifice the Key to Victory 

Senselessness of Quarrels 

Substance and the Shadow 

Suiting the Bait to the Fish 

Tit for Tat 

Trifles and the Difference they Make 

Troublesome People, What to Do with Them. 

Undesirable Citizens 

Unkindness Punishes Yourself 

Value of Order 

Wealth Lies in Industry 

Worthlessness of Passes 

Your Habits arc your Destiny 

Your Value Depends on your Habits 


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Absent-Mindedness 

Agreeing 

Appreciation of Advantages... 

Appropriating Things 

Arbor Day 

Arguments, Bad 

‘Bird in Hand* 


Bluffing 

Boasting 48, 

Borrowing 39i 

Bravery 


Care for School-books, 

Caricaturing 

Charity of Self-Help 

Cheerfulness 

Claiming too Much . . , 


Compassion 89, 

Confession, Honest 

Consideration of Others 

Contentiousness 8, 23, 

Contrariness 

Coolness 

Co-operation 72, 84, 

Cruelty to Animals 

Daily Washing, see Repetition. 

Dishonesty 

Division of Labor 72, 84, 

Doing your Best 

Duty 

Envying the Teacher 73, 

Equality 

Equivalent, Giving of 

Exercise as Beneficial 


Faithfulness to a Charge.. 52, 

Fault-finding 

Flattery 44, 

Fussiness 22, 41, 

Home, Going to 71, 

Gratitude 

Habit, Power of 47, 

Hardest, First 

Hazing 

Honesty i, 5, 65, 83, 

Honor i, 4, 5, 6, 

Horse-play 28, 102, 

Humane Society 

Humming in Class 

Idleness 

Illogicalness 

Industry 62, 116, 

Ingeniousness (More than one 

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Intruding in Another’s Seat.. 


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Kindness 3, 128 

Learning, not Attending 38 

Liberal, being too.. 53, 54, loi, 117 

Little Things 21 

Luring, Better than Fighting. 55 
Marks in books, see Obscenity. 

Meanness 36, 66 

Merit 61 

Mimicry 99 

Minding your own Business.. 24 
Minor Faults to be Overlooked 50 

Mischief 107, 118 

Modesty, its Value 31 

Monitors, their Value 58 

Music’s Attraction 59 

Mutual Protection 52, 60 

Nail-Biting 34 

Never Satisfied 51 

Nobility of Conduct 61 

Noisiness 75 

Obedience 64, 95 

Obscenity 33 

Order 15 

Perseverance ....62, 116, 120, 132 

Persuasion 137 

Politeness 14, ^3, 100 

Posture 9, 10, II, 127 

Power and Wisdom 136 

Practical Jokes, see Mischief. 

Punctuality 56 

Quick Thinking 133 

Rash Promises loi 

Restoration, Earned 134 

Repetition of Washing 69 

Resignation 89 

Respect for Parents. 63, 94, 96, 114 

Retaliation is Bad 27 

Retribution 23, 123 

Self-Control 24, 26, 83, 123 

Self-Help 134 

Self-Reliance 16, 17, 66, 126 

Self-Sacrifice 7, 93 

Shamming Sick 35 

Shirking 103 

Slow, if Thorough 132 

Social Service 40 

Solidarity, Social, 21, 23, 97 

Tampering with Bells 118 

Throwing of Objects 102 

Union, Power of 113 

Whims 41 

Wisdom and Power 136 


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i^obbrng otpn ||ous(e 


HE Rev. Oliver Dyer tells of a 
drunken carpenter in Lockport 
named A, who was noted for his 
shiftlessness and dishonesty. His 
wife was an industrious Christian 
woman who did a good deal of 
work for the family of a man named M, representa- 
tive in Congress. The M’s took a deep interest in 
Mrs. A and resolved to give her a permanent home. 
For that purpose Mr. M arranged to have a small 
house built on a lot which he owned in a part of the 
village known as Pioneer Hill. Hoping to encourage 
A, he gave him the job of building the house with- 
out letting him know for what purpose he was hav- 
ing it erected. While M was absent at Washington 
A went on with the work, spinning it out through 
the fall, winter and spring, and cheating his em- 
ployer, both as to the lumber and work he put into 
the house in every way that he could. When M re- 
turned in the middle of summer A told him that it 
was all finished in the best style, adding, “There is 
not a better built house on Pioneer Hill than that 
house of yours.” “Very well,” said M, “then you 
go home and tell Mrs. A to move into it right away. 



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And here Is the deed for the property. So you see 
you will have a nice house as long as you live.” 

A took the deed and walked away like one In a 
dream. He was dazed at the discovery that, in- 
stead of having cheated M, he had persistently and 
elaborately engaged for nearly a year Iii the work 
of cheating himself. 

“Oh, If I’d only known It was my own house that 
I was building!” he muttered over and over again. 
He never got over the chagrin occasioned by the dis- 
covery of his folly, but felt its sting grow constantly 
sharper as the defects of the house became more and 
more apparent with the lapse of time. 


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I&mi>nes!£( of Hincoln 


HERE are so many incidents of kind- 
ness in Lincoln’s life that it is im- 
possible to do more than mention 
them. Once, when he was all 
dressed up, he saw a little girl sob- 
bing, because the express wagon 
had failed to come and get her trunk to take it to 
the train on which she was to get off on a visit. Lin- 
coln shouldered the trunk and kissed her good-bye 
on the train. Once he left his fellow-lawyers to 
rescue a pig that was drowning in the mire; and, on 
another occasion, to find the nest from which a little 
bird had fallen. Likewise, he left his friends to save 
a drunkard who had fallen on the snow, and was 
sure to die of cold. Lincoln carried him a consider- 
able distance to an abandoned hut, made a fire, and 
nursed him till the morning, when the man was able 
to care for himself. Even after he was president, 
Lincoln stopped his business to restore a little bird 
to its nest. He pardoned many soldiers condemned 
to death; and his last official act was a pardon. 



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fetter tl^an tfjeir oton ^clf-'^Taluatuin 



SSSn UMANLY speaking, Lincoln would 


probably never have become Presi- 
dent of the United States had he 
not, in 1843, won the nomination 
for Congress, at Springfield, from 
E. D. Baker. Baker was the choice 
of the Whig party leaders ; but Lincoln’s popularity 
with the people, to whom he had endeared himself 
by his wit, his honesty, his logic, and his unpreten- 
tious familiarity, had secured a majority of the dele- 
gates to the convention. So the “bosses” tried to 
“convince” delegates, under instructions to vote for 
Lincoln, to violate them by voting for Baker; and 
apparently they succeeded. When Lincoln heard of 
this he wrote to Martin Morris of Petersburg a 
letter which the latter circulated among the dele- 
gates. It had its effect with the traitors, for it ex- 
pressed Lincoln’s incredulity that they could be guilty 
of such an enormity, reminding them of their own 
standing as honest men among the honest voters, and 
expressing Lincoln’s unwillingness to save himself 
by questioning the delegation from Sangamon 
County, where the majority were friendly to him, 
but had not come to the polls. The delegates were 
really better men than their own valuation of them- 
selves. 


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i^oncfit Criminars Carbon 

CERTAIN State Governor visited the 
State penitentiary to examine re- 
quests for pardon. One by one the 
convicts appeared before him and 
declared they were innocent men, 
sent to jail because the police did 
not like him, because his relatives desired his prop- 
erty, because he was too popular, etc. The last 
prisoner was not at all prepossessing; his eyes were 
shifty, and he neither looked nor acted as an honest 
man. “Well,” asked the Governor, impatiently, “I 
suppose you’re innocent like the rest of the fellows?” 
“No, Governor,” was the unexpected answer, “I was 
guilty of the crime they charged against me, and I 
got just what I deserved.” When the Governor had 
recovered from his astonishment, he said, “I’ll have 
to pardon you, because you might ruin all the other 
convicts, such innocent sufferers as they are! You 
might corrupt them, and teach them wicked tricks. 
As soon as I get back to the capital I’ll have the 
papers made out.” 



5 


jPoolmg ti)t people 


INCOLN Strongly believed In the vir- 
tue of dealing honestly with the 
people. “If you once forfeit the 
confidence of your fellow-citizens,” 
said he to a caller at the White 
House, “you can never regain their 
esteem or even respect. It Is true that you may fool 
all of the people some of the time; or even some of 
the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of 
the people all of the time.” 



6 




feelf=^acr(ftce rtje l^ep to "^Ji'ctorp 

HE two great battles in the war of 
Swiss independence from Austria 
were those of Morgarten and Sem- 
pach. It was in these that fought 
Arnold von Winkelried, who there- 
by achieved immortal fame. When 
the Swiss Mountaineers attacked the Austrian squad- 
ron they found themselves powerless. Though 
active, and skilled with the long-bow and the sword, 
they could not even make an impression on the Aus- 
trian line, three deep, of men heavily armored, pre- 
senting their fourteen-foot long lances. Suddenly 
Arnold von Winkelried saw a method of creating 
an opening. He went right up to the lances, gath- 
ered as many as he could in his arms, and rushed 
upon them so as to drive them all home into his own 
breast, trusting that the weight of his fall would 
carry them down with him. This created a breach, 
into which rushed the Swiss patriots over the quiver- 
ing corpse of Arnold. They gained a victory that 
insured the independence of their country; which 
will ever keep alive the memory of Arnold von 
Winkelried. 



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IStsiputesi more Cxpen^ibe tfjan ILoi^ 


RICH man in Springfield, Ills., sued 
a penniless attorney for $2.50 and 
asked Lincoln to prosecute the case. 
Lincoln urged the creditor to drop 
the matter; but, as he insisted, Lin- 
coln demanded $10, which the cred- 



itor gladly paid for immediate action. In about an 
hour Lincoln returned with a grin on his face. The 
only way he had seen to satisfy both his client and 
the debtor was to give the debtor half of the $10 to 
pay the debt and costs. The relentless creditor was 
out $7.50, in addition to the debt. 

Two Greek fishermen once quarreled over an 
oyster they had both discovered. So they took it to 
an arbitrator, who opened the oyster, gave each 
one of the shells, but himself ate the toothsome 
bivalve. 


8 


(^ruesiomt jfate of tfje ^letpp ^olbierjs 


N the Black Hawk war there was a 
squad of outposts that were 
thought to be in danger. So, during 
the night, Lincoln marched soldiers 
down into the Rock River bottom 
to their aid, reaching their tent just 
about sunrise. As the reinforcing party came up the 
slope on which the camp had been made, Lincoln 
saw them all lying with their heads toward the rising 
sun, and the round red spot that marked where they 
had been scalped, gleamed yet more redly in the 
ruddy light of the sun. This scene, years afterward, 
he recalled with a shudder, realizing the genuine 
criminality of the men’s lying down to rest, when 
some one should have been watching for the tricky 
Indians. After they had once laid down to rest, 
there was nothing else left for them but to fall 
asleep ; some one of them should have kept stirring, 
in soldierly bearing, and they would all have been 
saved. 



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Carbon anb ftsi ^rtce 

T Chain Bridge, William Scott, a 
Vermont private, after thirty-six 
hours of marching and doing sen- 
try-duty, offered to stand guard in 
place of a sick comrade who had 
been drawn for the duty. But his 
weariness was too great, and he was found sleeping 
on his beat. He was apprehended, tried by court 
martial, and sentenced to be shot — for the place was 
exposed to the enemy, and discipline must be main- 
tained. He took his sentence in good part, for he 
knew the rules of war, yet did not feel guilty, know- 
ing he had done his best to keep awake. Of course, 
he should not have volunteered for an impossible 
task, but it had been for a sick comrade. His limbs 
refused to support him, and the moment he was re- 
cumbent he was off asleep. The enemy might have 
passed by unnoticed, and slaughtered the whole com- 
mand. Lincoln, however, on being told of the case, 
immediately visited the youth, and asked the youth 
to promise to do his duty fully, as reward for par- 
doning him. The promise was carried out to the 
end, which occurred in one of those awful battles in 
the Peninsula. Scott, dying, asked that message to 
be taken to Lincoln. 



lo 


Jlrabcrp in extremities 

HEN the last defenses of Rome were 
carried by the Gauls, it came to be 
a question of what attitude the 
Roman senate should take. Should 
it disband, and the members seek 
safety in hiding? As flight was im- 
possible, should the members at least try to escape 
the resentment of the invaders by appearing in their 
private capacity? The Roman senators, instead, 
put on their most imposing garments, distributed 
their seats around the Forum, took each man his 
sceptre, and sat so still that when the Gauls arrived 
they were awed; and some of the barbarians so 
thoroughly mistook them for statues as to go up 
them and stroke their beards to make sure they were 
alive. 

So, during the Revolutionary war, at Hartford, 
Ct., a sudden eclipse made many think the end of 
the world had come; and men began to pray 
and disperse. A Mr. Davenport, however, called 
to the servants to bring lights, saying that even if it 
was the end of the world, he preferred to be found 
with lights burning. 



II 



EesarbleSgitegg iBeber ^afc 


T is never wise to be impolite to a 
stranger, for you do not know who 
he is, or what he may be worth. 
For instance, in March, 1913, a 
grocer’s boy, in Brooklyn, was, 
against the city ordinance, sweep- 
ing the sidewalk without any regard to passers-by. 
It happened that Mayor Gaynor was thus covered 
with dust; and he called on a nearby policeman to 
arrest the boy. When he found out who the stranger 
was, the boy collapsed, and considered himself lucky 
to get off with a light fine. On the contrary, many 
persons have, years afterwards, received legacies 
from grateful old people, or strangers, for some 
little deed of courtesy or kindness about which the 
doer had entirely forgotten. 



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^olttenesiis 


NE of the model schools of America 
was ultimately due to a minor deed 
of kindness or courtesy. The prin- 
cipal, a man of talent and origin- 
ality, at the time lacked recognition 
and influence, and was beginning 
his work in an old, condemned building. He was 
one day called out of his office to meet a gentleman 
who wished his rather delicate daughter to receive 
certain privileges in the matter of her course of 
study, which a number of other principals had per- 
emptorily and discourteously refused. Seeing the 
genuineness of the reason for this request, this prin- 
cipal graciously acceded to it. Thereupon the 
gentleman revealed himself as one of the most influ- 
ential men in the municipal administration, and 
offered any assistance that might be required. From 
this incident sprung a life-long friendship, which 
resulted later in the most expensive and handsome 
school-building and best facilities of the kind per- 
haps in the world. 



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“^Talue of Carter 


HiLE Still a young man, Lincoln was 
promoting his candidacy for the 
Illinois Legislature by “swinging 
around the circle,” and took dinner 
with a farmer in Sangamon 
County. Years later, during the 
war, a soldier visited the White House, whom Lin- 
coln recognized as his former host. “I recollect 
that we stood talking out at the barnyard gate while 
I sharpened my jack-knife.” “Yes,” drawled the 
soldier, “you did. But do tell me, where did you put 
that whetstone? I looked for it a dozen times, but 
I never could find it after the day you used it. We 
supposed that perhaps you took it along with you.” 
“No,” said Lincoln, “I put it on top of that gate- 
post, that high one.” “Well,” exclaimed the visitor, 
“may be you did. No one else could have put it 
there, and none of us ever thought of looking there 
for it.” On returning home the soldier found the 
whetstone just where Lincoln had laid It fifteen years 
before. He then wrote to Lincoln, telling him he 
had found it, and would never lose it again. Dis- 
order had made the whetstone useless for many 
years ; as useless as the letters of the alphabet, when 
disordered: BFQARXLO. 



IR^ibicuIottsincsfS of llnotolebs^ 


WO representatives in Congress were 
having an altercation which had 
progressed to the point of person- 
alities. One accused the other of ig- 
norance and irreligion, and offered 
to bet he did not know even the 
Lord’s prayer. With indignation the bet was taken 
up, and the money passed to a stakeholder. Then 
the second congressman began, “Now I lay me down 
to sleep.” The first one stopped him, saying, “That’s 
enough! The money is yours; but I really did not 
think you knew it.” Evidently neither knew it. 

Similarily, an express company delivered a statue 
of the Venus de Medici to an American consignee. 
The latter was much incensed to find one arm miss- 
ing, and claimed damages for breakage. These the 
express company paid, in ignorance of the fact that 
the original lacks that arm, which was no doubt 
broken off while the statue was being dug up from 
the ruins where it was found. 



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?S29ortf)lefiis;nesisi of $afii£(e£( 


ANY pupils want to be promoted 
without remembering what promo- 
tion represents — namely, mastery 
of the subject; so that promotion 
does not as a gift depend on the 
teacher, but as earned ability, de- 
pends on the pupil himself. It is not otherwise in 
any other department of life. A check is worthless 
without an account in the bank. Once a man called 
upon the President, soliciting a pass for Richmond. 
“Well,” said the President, “I would be very happy 
to oblige, if my passes were respected; but the fact 
is, sir, I have, within the past two years, given 
passes to 250,000 men to go to Richmond, and not 
one has got there yet.” The applicant quietly and 
respectfully withdrew on his tip-toes. 



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|CDigEDSi([Dgi03^D3§@D3^EQ^ffl® 

i?v^ vVW vWf iA?^ ■WA* 


tClje ^tter Pit 

N a French village a baker Dupont 
used to buy his butter from his 
neighbor, a farmer called Rigot. 
One day he noticed that he was not 
getting full weight, and on meeting 
Rigot, accused him of dishonesty. 
Indignantly the farmer denied the accusation, and 
Dupont pressed home the accusation before a judge. 
The latter demanded that Rigot produce his scales 
and weights. “Here is my scale,” answered Rigot; 
“but as to weights, I do not possess any.” “How 
then do you weigh your butter?” thundered the 
judge. “Easily enough,” retorted the farmer. “I 
buy from Dupont four one pound loaves, and this 
bread serves as weight for the butter I send him on 
Saturdays. I place it on one of the ends of the 
scale, and place the butter on the other.” “Well,” 
smiled the judge, “you have no case, Dupont!” 



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^anbs(ome Sa as ^anb£(ome Boes: 

WO ladies from Tennessee re- 
peatedly appeared before President 
Lincoln asking for the release of 
their husbands, who were held as 
prisoners of war at Johnson’s Is- 
land. At each interview one of the 
ladies urged on the President that her husband was 
a religious man. On signing his release the Presi- 
dent said, “You say your husband is a religious man; 
tell him, when you meet him, that I say that I am 
not much of a judge of religion; but that in my 
opinion the religion that sets men to rebel and fight 
against their government, because, in their opinion 
this their government does not sufficiently help some 
men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men’s 
faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people 
can get to heaven.” 



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KviUt^, anb tbe difference tfjep iHafee 

FTER Caesar had forced the chiefs 
of the Gauls to recognize his supe- 
riority, they decided to present him 
with a gift to express their regard 
for him, the gift being a cask of 
native wine. Accordingly, it was 
brought into the Celtic camp, so as to be ready on 
the following morning. But during the night a 
tired-out Gallic chief had the bright idea that nobody 
would be the wiser if he drew a cup of wine, replac- 
ing it with a cup of water; for so small a weakening 
of the generous liquor would be imperceptible. Un- 
fortunately, the same bright idea successively im- 
posed itself on all of the numerous Gallic chiefs and 
leaders; and they all succeeded in carrying it out 
unknown to each other, in the dead of night. How- 
ever, in the morning, when the formal presentation 
of the wine cask to Caesar was made, what was their 
consternation at the discovery that the whole cask 
of wine itself, had, during the night, thus changed 
to insipid water. Besides, imagine the feelings of 
Caesar, whom they had wished to conciliate ! 



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glpinst tibe #obemment 



AT was an immigrant; and arriving 
in New York on election day, was 
anxious to vote early, late and 
often. So, on landing at Castle 
Garden, he hastened to the nearest 
voting place, and started to vote. 
“For whom do you want to vote? On which side 
are you?” asked the clerk. For once Pat was em- 
barrassed; he did not know even the names of the 
parties. So he stopped; but it was not long before 
he showed his natural wit by saying, “Anyhow, I am 
against the government. If your Honor will tell me 
which side is that of rebellion. I’ll tell you for which 
side I want to vote. In old Ireland I was always on 
the side of rebellion, and, by Saint Patrick, I’ll do 
that same in America.” 


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^enfiiele£(£(ne£(£( of (!^uarrel£( 


INCOLN used to tell of a vicious bull 
who used to charge on any one who 
crossed the pasture. One day a 
neighbor of the owner attempted to 
do so. He was speedy, and got to 
a friendly tree ahead of the bull, 
but not in time to climb the tree. So he led the 
enraged animal a merry race around the tree, finally 
succeeding in seizing the bull by the tail. Not being 
able either to catch the man or release his tail, the 
bull was at a disadvantage, and angry enough to eat 
nails, so, with his feet, he dug the earth and scat- 
tered gravel all around, bellowing till he could be 
heard for two miles or more. At length he broke 
into a dead run, the man, all the time, hanging on to 
his tail. While the bull, much out of temper, was 
legging it to the best of his ability, his tormentor, 
still clinging to the tail, was shouting, “Darn you, 
who commenced this fuss, anyway?” This is a good 
picture of most quarrels. 



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llnolDtng Coo i¥lucf) 


URING Jackson’s administration there 
was a post-office clerk named G. 
who had been appointed because he 
was the son of a widowed neighbor 
of the President’s, in Tennessee. 
Consequently the President helped 
him out of the many difficulties he got into for know- 
ing, not too little, but too much. For instance, in a 
letter he was transcribing for a high official, he de- 
liberately changed the word “proximity” and made 
it read “nearness to,” on the grounds that he did not 
think it would be understood by the aged applicant 
for a Virginia country post-office. Major H. in- 
sisted on restoring that word, with the result that 
he received an indignant response to the effect that 
his father had fought for liberty in the second war 
for independence, and that he should like to have 
the name of the scoundrel who brought against him 
the charge of proximity, or any other crime. “Did 
I not say so?” retorted G. But Mr. Berry, the 
Postmaster-General, discharged him for knowing 
too much. 



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ar9^ •fSrfe iWb finr^ cr\A» vTv^ iroNfe Xim* 9v^ arv^ 


Then the President got him another place, in the 
Pension Office, and here his ideas underwent a 
change. One day he was very busy writing, when 
a stranger called in and asked him where the Patent 
Office was. “I do not know,” said G. “Can you 
tell me where is the Treasury Department?” said 
the stranger. “No.” “Nor the President’s house?” 
“No.” Finally the stranger asked him if he knew 
where was the Capitol. “No,” replied G. “Do you 
live in Washington, sir?” “Yes, sir,” said G. “Good 
Lord I and don’t you know where the Patent Office, 
Treasury, President’s house and Capitol are?” 
“Stranger,” said G, “I was turned out of the Post- 
Office for knowing too much. I do not mean to 
offend in that way again. I am paid for keeping 
this book. I believe I know that much; but if you 
find me knowing any more, you may take my head.” 
“Good morning,” said the stranger. 


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^cK=Control iWore ^wportant tijan 
Conquest of d^tfjers. 

OTH Alexander and Napoleon are 
examples of men who, after having 
conquered all of the world, failed 
because they had neglected the pre- 
liminary precaution of getting 
under control their own selves. 
Alexander conquered Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, 
Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Media, Bactria, and India; 
but he died, without a child to take his place, from 
the effects of a drunken orgy. Napoleon, the leader 
of the defensive republican forces, proclaimed him- 
self emperor as soon as his reputation among the 
armies warranted. He conquered Germany, and 
parcelled it out to his generals, so that he had noth- 
ing more to fear from it ; he could, from that time 
on, have turned to the establishment of the dearest 
wish of his heart, his own dynasty. But needless, 
insane ambition drove him to the impossible task 
of invading Russia, which started the causes that 
eventuated in Waterloo. 



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M ft (^ibesi pou anp ^atistaction ! 


INCOLN, when taken to task for 
ignoring General Phelps’ procla- 
mation of the liberty of the South- 
ern slaves, at the time he had taken 
Ship Island, near New Orleans, 
told the following story: Jones 
was one of those meek men, who had the reputation 
of being badly henpecked. At last, one day, he was 
publicly seen in the act of being switched out of the 
house by his wife. A few days later he was met in 
the street by a friend, who said, “Jones, I have 
always, as you know, stood up for you; but I am 
not going to do it any longer. Any man who will 
stand quietly and take a switching from his wife 
deserves to be horse-whipped.” Jones looked up 
with a wink, patting his friend on the back. “Now 
don’t,” said he; “why, it didn’t hurt me any; and 
you’ve no idea what a ‘power’ of good it did Sarah 
Ann!” 



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©angers; of ^fep=Iarfemg 


N Sept. 13, 1912, at the University 
of North Carolina, Charlotte, N. 
C., William Isaac Rand of Smith- 
field, N. C., and his roommate, 
named Wellons, were awakened at 
1.30 A. M. and forced to accompany 
four sophomores to the athletic field. Then their 
tormentors forced them to sing, dance and do stunts. 
They were forced to mount barrels and do some 
vaudeville stunts. Some of their tormentors 
grew tired of these, and kicked the barrel from 
under Wellons. Falling, Wellons cut himself on 
some broken glass, and Rand on a large 
broken pitcher. Rand’s throat was cut, and 
the hazers fled. When physicians arrived Rand 
had expired. President Venable was forced to 
make the facts public; and three of the sopho- 
mores, Ralph Oldham, Will Merriman and Aubrey 
Ratch were convicted of manslaughter and sen- 
tenced to four months in jail. But who will con- 
sole the father and mother, who had spent so much 
time and money on their son, and who looked for- 



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ward to his life-long assistance! And all for the 
momentary fun of those students who soon went 
free ! 

Children and young people need instruction in 
the evil effects of hazing and “practical jokes,” for 
the reason that children are born ignorant. Babies 
must be taught that fire burns. Youths do not real- 
ize the financial disaster of losing an eye, or being 
maimed for life — risks frequently incurred in play- 
ing, and hazing. Children need instruction in keep- 
ing out of the way of automobiles and carriages. 
They must be convinced there is no fun in taking 
risks. Their parents’ year-long self-sacrifice in rear- 
ing them should be brought home to them till they 
realize it. Much so-called ingratitude is lack of 
instruction. 

Fourth of July fire-works have long been annual- 
ly responsible for over 350 killed and 5000 wound- 
ed, most of them permanently. The excuse, T did 
not mean to do it,' restores no corpse to life. Good 
intentions are so cheap that they have been used as 
paving-stones for hell. The excuse, ‘Who could 
have foreseen such accidental circumstances?’ is an- 
swered by the observation that it is always the Un- 
expected that happens. Duty is difficult enough, 
without unnecessary complications and accidents 1 


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llumilttp $a2>£( 

N Italian fisherman was so modest, 
self-controlled, wise and able, that 
he was invited to become a deacon 
in the church. He soon became, 
priest; then bishop. He conducted 
himself so well in his diocese, that, 
with the approval of all, the pope chose him to 
be a cardinal. However, one envious man sneered 
at his rapid rise in life, and said that St. Peter’s 
net, instead of his keys and sword, had come in 
vogue. The cardinal immediately put up in his 
dining room, where he entertained visitors, a rough 
net. When his guests asked him its meaning, he 
answered that it was to keep him humble, by 
reminding him of his lowly origin. This so con- 
ciliated the envious and vain cardinals, that when 
the pope died, they chose him pope, feeling sure 
they could continue to feel superior. But what was 
their amazement, after the new pope’s enthrone- 
ment, to see that the net had been removed. On 
being asked the reason, the pope answered, “It has 
caught the fish, my son I” 



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^predating iWobern jfacUftte^ 



UPILS of modern schools would be 
more grateful for their books and 
supplies if they remembered what 
difficulties in such things great men 
had to encounter in past ages. Lin- 
coln, for instance, had to walk nine 
miles daily to and from school, such as it was. He 
had to write on the puncheon floor, the fence-rails, 
and the wooden fire-shovel, with a bit of charcoal. 
From Gentryville he got some wrapping-paper, his 
ink he made out of blackberry root and copperas. 
He had to learn to make good pens out of turkey 
buzzard quills. He so marked up the house that his 
father interfered; and he began practicing writing 
on the trees ; later, in the sand at the deer-lick. He 
had to read by the unsteady light of the log-fire, 
lying on the floor in front of it. Most of his study- 
ing was done after working hard all day. Having 
accidentally ruined a book he had borrowed, he 
worked three days in the fields to pay up for it. 
To borrow the books with which to study law he 
had to ride more than twenty miles, and carry them 
back all the way. 


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®niiegira6le Cftijcnsf 

HERE are some human beings who 
are as undesirable citizens as cer- 
tain undesirable animals. There is 
the skunk, who, when pursued, dis- 
courages pursuit by squirting all 
around a sickening, noisome stench. 
There is the hyena, who laughs and grins while en- 
gaged in his favorite occupation of disinterring the 
bones of dead people and animals. There is the 
cuckoo, who never builds a nest of her own, but who 
lays her eggs in other birds’ nests, and relies on them 
to hatch them. The burrows of the sociable, ingen- 
ious and harmless prairie dogs are invaded by the 
burrowing owl and the rattlesnake, who feed on the 
young of their hosts; where once they enter, they 
never leave till they have at leisure destroyed the 
whole prairie dog family. Beetles and flies, lice and 
vermin feed on offal. Even birds know enough to 
keep their own nests clean; only the most degraded 
kinds foul their own nests. 



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Ptting one’g ^aflsf 


HEWING one’s nails is a reminder of 
babyhood, and must sooner or later 
be discontinued; the sooner, the bet- 
ter. Moreover it may lead to blood 
poisoning. It is, besides, a dis- 
gusting trait, shared but by very 
few animals. Carnivorous animals will eat other 
animals, but live in friendship with their own kind. 
Still, pigs and a few others, will eat their own young. 
Further than that, only rats, mice and vermin will 
go. In Paris an old hyena accidentally broke its leg. 
Before the bone united, however, the hyena bit off 
the limb, and during the night consumed it, bone and ! 
all. The green locust will eat its own legs pulled I 
off by accident; captive eagles have plucked off the ' 
flesh off its legs. Rats, caught in a trap by a leg, 
will gnaw off the limb to disengage themselves. 
Mice, from pure vexation at captivity, have gnawed i 
their tails. So people tear their own hair, or scar 
their bodies with flints from anger. Caterpillars j 
will devour their cast-off shells. 



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Uppocritei among Animals 

OWEVER honest or religious animals 
may sometimes be, there are also 
hypocrites among them. In mili- 
tary stables horses are known to 
have pretended to be lame in order 
to avoid going to military exercise. 
A chimpanzee who had to be fed on cake when ill, 
after his recovery often feigned coughing in order 
to procure dainties. It is well known that opossums, 
not to speak of foxes, will feign death to escape the 
final indignities of an enemy; indeed, from this 
came the vulgar locution to “play possum.” Animals 
are conscious of their deceit, for they try to act 
secretly and noiselessly. Shepherd dogs who have 
taken to sheep-killing can hardly be discovered 
except in the act. Bees which steal often hesitate 
before and after their exploits, as if they feared 
punishment. A naturalist describes how his monkey 
committed a theft. While he pretended to sleep the 
animal regarded him with hesitation, and stopped 
every time his master made a movement. 


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Casilb 

Sicilian country priest who was 
going to visit Rome was asked by 
some of his friends to make pur- 
chases for them; and they all gave 
him memorandums of what they 
wished; but only one gave him the 
money to pay for what he wanted. The latter’s 
errands he did carefully, but never again thought 
of the former’s requests. On his return all these 
persons came to visit him, to inquire about their 
purchases. “Gentlemen,” announced he to them, 
“when I embarked in the ship, I spread out all your 
requests on the deck, so as to put them in order; 
but suddenly a gust of wind carried them all off into 
the ocean; and I was thus unable to carry out your 
wishes.” “Still,” objected one of his friends, “you 
did make a purchase for Mr. So-and-So !” “Oh yes,” 
responded the priest, “but luckily he had wrapped 
inside of his memorandum the cash needed to pay 
for it, and its weight kept the wind from blowing it 
away.” 



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Hearnins bergus Supplies! 


PEASANT visited a city, carefully 
observing all the strange sights. He 
noticed that many persons were 
reading newspapers, and that al- 
most all of them wore spectacles 
of some sort. So the peasant 
entered into an optician’s store and asked for spec- 
tacles to read by. Several pairs were tried on, while 
the peasant stares at a book; but, after each trial, 
he answers, “No, I can’t read yet.” Tired of trying 
on glasses, the optician finally, in despair, exclaims, 
“I do not believe you know how to read!” “Of 
course not!” explained the peasant in an injured 
tone; “if I knew how to read I should not have 
asked you for spectacles to read by! Do you sup- 
pose I am blind?” 



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$rofesffi>tonal IBorrotDer 

FARMER had the habit of borrowing 
provisions from his neighbors, in- 
stead of purchasing them for him- 
self. He would ask for a little 
piece of bacon, which he was to 
return whenever he should kill one 
of his pigs ; but this he never did, so that he continued 
borrowing, until nobody would advance any more 
bacon to him. Finally he was forced to rely upon 
himself, and to decide to have one of his pigs killed. 
So he called for a butcher, and said to him, “If it 
became known I was having a pig killed, I would 
have none left for myself, as I owe far more than 
the pig would amount to. So I want you, after 
slaughtering the pig, to leave it hanging outside; 
then during the night I will come and get it, and in 
the morning, when you come again, I will claim it 
was stolen, and thus be excused from returning the 
bacon I borrowed.” The butcher agreed, but se- 
cretly returning, himself stole the carcass. In the 
morning, when the owner met him with a long 
face, announcing that the porker had really been 
stolen, the butcher answered, “Splendid, keep it up 
that way. If you do, everybody will really believe 
you when you tell them the porker was stolen !” 



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^erbue l&anfesi tlie &ante 


N Zurich, some centuries ago, lived 
a poor man who was weak in his 
mind. In the asylum it was decided 
he was harmless, and discharged; 
and a kindly person suggested he 
be allowed to ring the bells of the 
parish church. This gave the simple-hearted man 
great joy, to feel he was serving the town, calling 
to church men, women and children. This went on 
for years till there arose a dispute, and he was dis- 
charged. Feeling he was of no further use to the 
world the bell-ringer did not wish to live any longer; 
so he went to the public executioner, asking as a 
favor, to be put out of the way; he knelt down, and 
closed his eyes, to have his head chopped off. 
Instead of doing so, the executioner took the sorrow- 
stricken man gently to the magistrates, who listened 
to his story. They felt the good man had been 
treated harshly, and they effected his reinstatement. 
The poor fellow was again made happy, and till his 
dying day he fulfilled his duty, feeling he was serving 
the people, even in so humble a capacity. Respect 
is due not only to the genius’s achievements, but also 
to the efforts of the humble ; both serve the state. 



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f&nohitng toliat 2>ou ^ant 


Hindu, who felt lonely, went to his 
deity to ask for a companion; and 
his prayers were answered by the 
gift of a wife. After some time 
he returned to the same deity, ask- 
ing him to take back his wife, on 
the plea that he could no longer live with her; he 
had nothing to himself, he had no leisure, and no 
privacy. The deity accommodated him, and took 
back the wife. After another period, the Hindu 
returned to the deity, begging him to restore to him- 
self his former wife, on the plea that he could not 
live without her, remembering as he did all the little 
kindly offices she used to perform for him. Once 
more the deity accommodated him, and returned 
the wife to him. After a third period, the Hindu 
once more returned to the deity, begging him to take 
his wife back again, because he once more felt he 
could not live with her. This time, however, the 
deity refused, answering, “As you cannot live with 
her, and cannot live without her, the wisest thing is 
to stay as you happen to be at the present moment, 
and make the best of it.” 



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Sbs!cnt=iWmbcimes!sf Costlp 


ARDiNAL Dubois, minister of Louis 
IX, was a very absent-minded man. 
His supper consisted of a chicken, 
which he always ate all by himself. 
One evening, his servants forgot 
all about the chicken. So, when 
about to retire, the Cardinal rang for an attendant, 
and claimed his supper, demanding the reason why 
he was being served so late. The servant, ashamed 
to own his fault, and knowing his master’s weakness, 
coolly objected that the Cardinal had eaten his 
chicken an hour ago. “What!” said he, “do you 
mean to say that I have already eaten my supper?” 
“Why, certainly!” was the reply, in an injured tone. 
“Of course, of course! You may retire!” hastily 
answered the Cardinal, ashamed of being caught in 
another slip of his memory; and without further 
thought himself retired for the night. 



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^ofa) to get tfje tlTrutf) 



A Fontaine, the writer of so many 
charming fables, used to eat a 
baked apple every evening. One 
day, just as he was about to eat it, 
he was called away; so he put it 
aside on the chimney and went out. 


During his absence one of his friends entered the 
room; and on seeing the baked apple, not being able 
to resist the tempting morsel, he ate it. On return- 
ing, La Fontaine guessed what had occurred; and, 
pretending great alarm, cried, “What became of the 
baked apple I left on the chimney?” “I do not 
know anything about it!” answered his friend, with 
assumed innocence. “So much the better,” returned 
La Fontaine, as if greatly relieved; “for I had put 
in it arsenic to kill the rats!” “Heavens! I am poi- 
soned,” shouted the visitor, growing pale. “Quick, 
send for a doctor, and save me !” “My dear fellow,” 
returned La Fontaine, “do not get so excited; now 
that I think of it, I remember I had forgotten to put 


it in!” 


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jFlatterp or Criticism ? 


NE morning Louis XIV said to the 
Marshal de Grammont, “Just look 
at this little song, and see if you 
ever saw more wretched doggerel. 
Merely because I have the reputa- 
tion of liking verses, every Tom, 
Dick and Harry allows himself to send me his lucu- 
brations!” On reading the song, the marshal re- 
plied, “Your majesty’s judgment is admirable, in 
all subjects. I never read a more stupid and ridicu- 
lous production.” The king burst out laughing, and 
said to him, “Would you not call the writer a fool?” 
“Sire, it is the only word that fits him.” “Well,” 
said the king, “I am very glad you have spoken to 
me so frankly, for it is I myself who have written 
it! What treachery. Sire! Please let me look at 
it again ! I did not read it carefully !” “No indeed, 
my dear field marshal,” responded the king; “one’s 
first judgment is always the most reliable!” 



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tlTroufilesiome ^eojple, to 30 o toftfj tftem 


HE last horse-drawn omnibus in 
Paris was put out of commission in 
1913 ; but long before that, two old 
ladies were sitting side by side in 
one of them. The one demands 
that the window be closed, the 
other insists just as strenuously that it be left open. 
The conductor is called in to decide the question. 
“Sir,” cries the first, “if this window remains open 
I am sure to catch a cold which will be the death of 
me.” “If you close it,” shouted the second, “I shall 
die of a stroke of apoplexy.” The conductor is in 
a quandary until an old gentleman who sits in a 
distant corner speaks up, “Open the window, con- 
ductor; that will cause one of them to die. Then 
you will close it, and that will rid us of the other; 
after that we will have peace!” 

Likewise, there was a priest of Jupiter, who had 
two daughters. One of them married a potter, and 
for his sake always besought her father to pray to 
Jupiter for fair weather. The other married a 
farmer, and for his sake besought her father to pray 
to Jupiter for rain. The priest decided, however, 
to let Jupiter send whatever weather he pleased. 



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|9our “^aluc Bepenbg on pour 

ORSES are probably as easily edu- 
cated into habits as any animal. 
The horse of the delivery-wagon 
on a regular route is known to stop 
at the right houses of himself. 
Fire-horses are educated to come 
from the stall to the engine at the clang of the 
fire-bell; they differ as much as school-boys in the 
speed of learning this. Some learn in a single 
lesson, some need a month. Billinghurst tells an 
amusing tale of a gentleman who, to make a journey, 
bought a fine-looking animal offered to him almost 
for the taking. All went well on the frequented 
roads ; but on Finchley Common the horse 
sidled up to a lonely carriage of a clergyman in 
so professional a manner, that a pistol was thrust 
in the face of the innocent rider. Once a gentle- 
man produced his purse, unasked; several times he 
was threatened with swords, and assailed with 
curses. Then the peace oflicers wanted to arrest 
him as a highway-man; and it finally seemed wise 
to dispose of him for a trifle and to pay a higher 
price for a poorer horse of better moral habits. 




Confftante gfjoulb tie l^ell Ctjoscn 



HE emperor Joseph II loved sim- 
plicity, and was never happier than 
when driving around the country 
unattended and simply dressed. 
One afternoon when he was out 
driving, it began to rain, and he 
noticed a sergeant whose uniform was in danger of 
becoming spoiled; so he stopped, and invited him 
into the carriage. The sergeant began to brag about 
the relish of the lunch he had just partaken of at 
the house of a gamekeeper, a friend of his. “Guess 
what I had!” challenged he. “Well,” responded 
the emperor, “how could I guess? Some beer-soup, 
perhaps?” “Better than that!” was the jubilant 
response. “Sauerkraut?” “Better still !” “A loin 
of veal?” “Still better!” “Well, I give it up!” 
answered the emperor. “A pheasant, my good fel- 
low! A pheasant, shot on the preserves of the em- 
peror!” chortled the sergeant, familiarly tapping the 





emperor on the knee. “If from the emperor’s 
preserves,” remarked the emperor, “it could only 
have been more delicious!” “Yes, indeed,” re- 
sponded the glad sergeant. 

On arriving in town, the emperor insisted on 
driving home the sergeant, who wished to know the 
identity of his friend in need. But the emperor 
answered, “You made me guess, now it is you who 
must do so.” “Well, you are a military man, are 
you not?’ “Certainly,” was the response. “Lieuten- 
ant, perhaps?” “Better than that.” “Captain?” 
“Still better.” “Not a colonel?” “I tell you, better 
than that!” Backing away into his corner, the dis- 
traught sergeant whispered, “Might you be a field- 
marshal?” “Still better,” responded the emperor 
evenly. “Heavens, it’s the emperor!” “Yes in- 
deed,” said Joseph II, unbuttoning his coat to show 
his decorations. The sergeant, lacking room to get 
down on his knees, begs the emperor to stop the 
carriage, so as to get out of it. “By no means,” 
slyly smiled the emperor; after having eaten my 
pheasant, you would be only too glad to get rid of 
me so soon ; but I will not set you down till we reach 
your door.” And only there did he set him down. 


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Results! abobc iWetfjobif 



ENERAL Grant had many enemies 
at the North; nor had President 
Lincoln ever met him personally. 
The reason of his advancement was 
solely that he could win battles. 
Not only powerful and influential 
politicians, but also temperance advocates insisted 
time after time that Grant was a drunkard, that he 
was not himself half the time, that he could not be 
relied on, that it was a disgrace to have such a 
man in command of an army. “Well,” returned 
Lincoln, with the faintest suspicion of a twinkle in 
his eye, “you needn’t waste your time getting proof; 
to oblige me, do you just find out what brand of , 
whiskey Grant drinks, because I want to send a | 
barrel of it to each one of my generals.” I 


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iOteber ^atistfieb 


LITTLE CHILD was Seated by the 
roadside, weeping bitterly. “What 
are you crying about?” asked a 
charitable passer-by. “My mother 
gave me two cents, and I have lost 
them!” was the heart-broken reply. 
“Cheer up,” answered the gentleman. “I will 
replace your loss; here are two more cents!” The 
child eagerly took them, and clutched them in his 
hand. 

But as soon as the gentleman had started away, 
the child began crying harder than ever. So he re- 
turned, and somewhat impatiently asked, “What are 
you crying about now?” 

“Oh,” sobbed the child, “if I had not lost my own 
two cents, I now would have four.” 





iMifitunberfftanbmg fjtbeg liTirtttcS 


ENVENUTO Cellini, the famous 
Florentine artist, had a dog, who 
was roused in the middle of the 
night by a thief who was trying to 
break open the artist’s caskets, to 
loot his jewelry. The dog attacked 
the thief, who defended himself with a sword. The 
faithful creature ran to the room of the journeymen 
workers, to rouse them; but as they would not wake, 
he drew off their bed-clothes, and pulled them by the 
arms. Then he barked loud, and showed the way 
to the thief, going on before; but the men failed to 
understand him, and locked their door. Finding he 
must rely on himself, the dog undertook the task 
alone; but the thief had fled. The dog followed him, 
found him, tore off his cloak, and would have treated 
him as he deserved but for the interference of some 
tailors in the neighborhood, to whom the thief cried 
for assistance against the seemingly mad dog. So 
the dog was forced to retire, and only later were 
his heroic efforts understood and rewarded. 



52 


Care in Pargaing 


T is well to be careful in making a 
bargain. An old miser’s wife was 
sick; so he sent for a physician. 
The latter, knowing the miser’s 
reputation, insisted on arranging 
terms of compensation beforehand. 
“Very well,” agreed the miser, “you shall have forty 
dollars, whether you kill or cure my wife.” The 
physician accepted the terms, and did his best; but 
in spite of this, the woman died. A little later, the 
physician came to collect his bill, but the miser turned 
on him with an injured tone. “What are you talk- 
ing about?” asked he. “Did you cure my wife?” 
“No, I failed in that,” responded the doctor sorrow- 
fully. “Then you killed her, did you?” sneered the 
miser. “Killed her? you know better than that!” 
shouted the indignant doctor. “Well, if you neither 
cured nor killed her,” asked the miser, “why have 
you come to claim any money?” 



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(^nihUins 

OLTAIRE tells of Zadig’s surprise at 
seeing his wife Azora returning 
home very indignant. “You would 
be as indignant as I,” responded 
she, “had you seen what I have! 
I went to console the widow Cos- 
rou, who has just erected a monument to her hus- 
band by the side of the rivulet in the meadow. In 
her grief, she vowed to the divinities to remain near 
that tomb as long as the stream flowed by it.” 
“Well,” said Zadig, “there is nothing wrong in that! 
She is an estimable woman who really loved her hus- 
band.” “That is right enough,” answered Azora, 
“but imagine what she was doing when I visited 
her? She was having some laborers change the 
course of the rivulet, making a new bed for it, away 
from the tomb.” 



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^uitins rtje ^ait to tfje jFfetj 


PIG and a dog who were passengers 
on the same ship, were in the habit 
of eating their food from the same 
plate; and there would have been 
no trouble, but that there was but 
one kennel, and that for the dog. 
Of course the pig was just as anxious as the dog for 
its protection, and every day, in the evening, there 
was a race for it; for if the dog got in first, the pig 
had to lie on the softest plank; while if the pig got 
in first, the dog had to stand the cold wind and the 
spray. One rainy afternoon the pig found the dog 
inside; so he moved the dinner plate in sight of the 
dog, and began rattling it, and munching as if he 
was devouring a feast. The pig kept on, grunting 
with delight, till the dog had come around nosing at 
the plate; and before the dog knew whether or not 
there was any dinner on the plate, the pig was safe 
in the kennel, snug and warm for a night-long 
slumber. 



55 


€bcn Animate punctual 


Mr. Ohren was a clerk in the room 
of the First Deputy Commissioner 
in the great Pension Building at 
Washington. At two o’clock the 
public is excluded, and a great calm 
falls on its interior, and Mr. 
Ohren one afternoon noticed a mouse nibbling at the 
crumbs that had fallen from his lunch. This was 
repeated several times, until he noticed the mouse 
always appeared at his desk exactly at three o’clock. 
One afternoon, however, that hour passed, and the 
mouse was conspicuous by its absence; and only at 
six minutes past three, when Mr. Ohren had given 
it up for lost, did it boldly run forward, sleek and 
fat as it was, for its afternoon repast. Mr. Ohren 
was somewhat disappointed at this unpunctuality 
of the mouse, when the official clock superintendent 
entered and set the clock back six minutes, which it 
had gained because of some disorder in the electrical 
connections with the Naval Observatory. So it was 
the clock, not the mouse, that had gone wrong. 



56 
















Clasts; i$lonttor£( 


OLLiE dogs can be trained to herd 
sheep, almost as well, if not better 
than can men. Their art is so well- 
recognized that regular sheep-herd- 
ing competitions are held annually 
in the Scotch highlands. The 
stories of their sagacity are numerous, and marvel- 
ous. For instance, the poet James Hogg’s dog 
“Sirrah” once saved a scattered flock of seven hun- 
dred lambs by herding them into a ravine and pro- 
tecting them till the arrival of help. Dogs have been 
known to drive sheep and oxen alone to market, 
even through other grazing flocks, delivering them 
to the consignee, by barking at his door, and then 
returning home. A shepherd once sold a flock to 
a neighbor, who came, fetched the new flock and 
took it home. Next morning the old owner found 
his flock back in his own yard, together with one 
or two of the neighbor’s, which the dog had no doubt 
taken as payment for the new owner’s supposed 
dishonesty. 



58 


^otDcr of jUluiic 



REEK mythology told of Anon, a 
musician, riding on a dolphin, 
charming the fishes of the sea. 
Orpheus charmed the wild beasts, 
and even the stones and rocks. 
Choir-boys in England, on a 
ramble, singing an anthem, once charmed a hare. The 
stories of prisoners who by whistling charmed mice 
are very common. An American gentleman, playing 
the flute, attracted a mouse, whose actions showed its 
delight! Slow and solemn music affected it dif- 
ferently than quick and lively tunes; it would dis- 
appear immediately on its ceasing, returning when 
it began again. The effect music has on dogs is 
well-known : they will hug the piano and howl away 
for dear life. Spiders are known to have crawled 
on a boy’s arm while he was playing the violin. 
Billinghurst tells of a gentleman sailing to Spitz- 
bergen whose violin-music attracted seals to follow 
his ship. 


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i^one too Xotolp to ||clp 

HE same story, practically, is told of 
the Scotch hero, Bruce, the Arabian 
Mohammed, and the Tartar Jheng- 
his Khan, though with the two for- 
mer their place of shelter was a 
cave, while the latter hid under a 
bush. When the pursuing enemy approached, they 
were moved to leave by the animal who constituted 
itself the hero’s sentry, deeming it impossible that a 
man could be there without having disturbed the 
animal. So Bruce was saved by a spider, balancing 
himself at the centre of his hastily spun web; Mo- 
hammed was saved by a dove’s nest; and Jhenghis 
Khan by a white owl. The Mogul and Kalmuc 
Tartars still, on that account, pay to the latter 
almost divine honors. 



6o 




iHerit aliobe ^faantageat 

OME of the greatest men in the world 
have been ugly, like Lincoln ; while 
many of the greatest rascals have 
been enabled to promote their 
malice because of their attractive- 
ness, like Aaron Burr, or Jean 
Jacques Rousseau. The Emperor Charlemagne once 
visited his tutor Alcuin’s school, and examined the 
pupils. He found that most of the noble ones were 
deficient in studies, while the poorer ones did well. 
So he divided them into two groups, one on his right 
hand, and one on his left, threatening to degrade 
the shiftless nobles, and to promote the industrious 
poor. Again, in 1615, a young German nobleman 
asked a neighboring noble for the hand of his 
daughter. The latter refused the request on the 
ground that the youth could not support the girl by 
the labor of his own hands. The youth asked for a 
year, in which he learned the basket-makers’ trade; 
and as reward, he received his bride. Later in life, 
war really drove him into exile, and he was very for- 
tunate to be able to keep his wife from need. 



61 


^ersieberance 



VEN animals are capable of perse- 
verance; and in this some of them 
give us men noble lessons. It is 
well known that coral islands are 
the results of the life-efforts of in- 
numerable almost invisible insects. 
Ants build cities sometimes taller than men, in Africa. 
Bees build hives of remarkable regularity. The 
beaver cuts his trees with no saw other than his teeth, 
builds his dams, and outer and inner dwellings. 
Elephants are most faithful laborers. Of old, they 
were, in India, employed in the launching of ships. 
It is related of one that, he was directed to push 
a very large ship into the water. However the task 
proved too great for the elephant; he could not 
move it. With a sarcastic tone, the master ordered 
the keeper to take away the lazy beast, and bring 
another one. Instantly the poor animal repeated 
his efforts, to the point that he fractured his skull, 
and died on the spot. 


6a 



^prcriatins pour parents 


ARELY do children properly value 
their parents until too late, when 
they have died. An example in 
point is Dr. Samuel Johnson, who 
wrote the first English dictionary. 
His father kept a little book-store 
in Litchfield, and had a little stall in the local market 
at Uttoxeter. One day, he was sick, and asked 
Samuel to tend the stall for him; but Samuel curtly 
refused. So the father went ; but in the rain he took 
cold, and died of it. Then, of course, Samuel was 
repentant; but it was too late. Still, he said to 
himself, that he would make what little reparation 
he could by going to the market annually on the 
anniversary of that circumstance, and standing there 
bareheaded one hour, rain or shine. As years grew 
on, and he became famous, this his habit attracted 
more and more attention, which must have been un- 
pleasant to him; but he continued his expiation, 
inconsolable as he was at the death of his father, 
due to his disrespect. Later, even pictures of this 
habitual action of his were made. 



63 



1 





jFatr Bealins Snstincttbe 


VEN animals have a sense of fair- 
dealing, and of giving an equiv- 
alent. There is, in Nebraska, a 
queer little animal known as the 
“neotoma cinerea,” or more popu- 
larly, as the “mountain” or “trade 
rat.” It is smaller than the usual Norway rat, has 
a short tail, a white belly, and large, mild rabbit- 
like eyes. He dwells in hollow trees, making forays 
on the farmers’ grain and vegetables. But he is 
strictly honest, and never takes anything without 
giving something in return, so he is known as the 
“trade rat.” A Mr. T. S. Allison saw an ear of 
corn which had lost one quarter of its grains, while 
near-by was a neat little heap of fresh-cut willow- 
twigs, and a few pine cones. Next morning more 
grains were gone, but some pebbles had been added. 
The rat who traded corn-grains for pine cones sat 
contentedly on a log watching him with his great, 
lustrous eyes, as if asking, “How many cones or 
pebbles for an ear of corn?” He was not afraid 
of men, because he was earning his living, the best 
he could. 



65 


for tCat 


NCE the fox invited to dinner the 
stork, who accepted the courtesy. 
On arriving, however, the stork 
found that the dinner was served in 
flat dishes so that he was unable 
to do more than taste the soup, 
because of his long beak. The stork was too 
well trained to show his disappointment, and con- 
tented himself with extending a return invitation. 
When Reynard arrived, expecting to enjoy a feast, 
he found the soup served in two long-necked jars, in 
which the stork could dip his long beak, but the fox, 
in spite of his skill, could not penetrate. So he left, 
in confusion, with his handsome bush-tail between 
his legs. 



66 


0ratftube Sngtinctibe 



^RATITUDE Is SO Strong a characteristic 
in the dog that an ungrateful dog 
would be called a wolf. Cats are 
grateful not very much further 
than it actually pays. That is the 
reason why gratitude is all the 
more surprising In that fiercer member of the cat 
family, the lion; and especially so In the lioness, 
because of her exceptional ferocity and more cat- 
like behavior. The lion of Andronicus followed 
him like a dog, for having had a splinter removed 
from his paw. Likewise, in the Crusades, Geoffrey 
de la Tour freed one from a serpent, and was fol- 
lowed by him till he sailed away, the lion drown- 
ing himself In trying to follow. Lionesses also are 
grateful. An Indian woman, named Maldonata, 
near Buenos Ayres, was fed and protected from 
other savage beasts by one, when by the authorities 
she was bound to a tree and exposed to them. In 
India a sailor who landed was by a lioness solicited 
to help recover her two cubs from a baboon 
who had carried them up into a tree. When he 
cut It down for her, she fawned on him before 
carrying them away to safety. 


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IStfftcuItiefi are onlj> ^puri 

^NY famous artists earned the 
opportunity to begin their world- 
renowned careers by doing their 
very best with the unsatisfactory 
materials they could alone com- 
mand. Giotto was a goatherd, 
and was discovered drawing a kid on a smooth 
rock. Claude Lorrain was a failure at everything, 
till engaged as helper to grind an artist’s colors. 
By himself, at nights, he made a sketch which 
earned him an education. Antonio Canova, who 
died in 1822 began his career by carving a lion 
out of the butter given him as only present he 
could afford for the birthday party of a boy- 
friend of his, called Joseph. Thorwaldsen (1770- 
i^ 44 )> the Danish Sculptor of the famous Swiss 
lion at Lucerne, got the prize at a modeling school 
competition merely because the teacher practically 
forced him to complete the work he had given up 
in despair. 



68 


STmportance of Baflp Buttes: 

OLTAIRE employed a valet who was 
honest and faithful, but not over 
industrious. One day Voltaire 
asked for his shoes; and, noticing 
that they were still covered with 
mud, he cried, “How dare you 
bring them to me in that condition?” “Why, sir,” 
replied the lazy valet, “that is of no great import- 
ance to-day, as the streets are muddy; in two hours 
the best-cleaned shoes would be as muddy again as 
these still are!” Voltaire, like a wise man, said 
nothing, put them on, and went out. But Joseph, 
the valet, ran after him, shouting, “Sir, the key! 
Do not forget the key!” “What key?” “Why, the 
key of the pantry for lunch!” “My dear Joseph,” 
retorted Voltaire, “what is the use? Two hours 
later you would again be as hungry as you are now!” 
From that day on, Joseph never forgot to shine 
Voltaire’s shoes daily. 



69 


J^efusins ^rtbilegci 


URING a long march in an arid 
country, on his way to India, 
Alexander’s army suffered ex- 
tremely from thirst. Some soldiers, 
sent out to scour the country, found 
a little water in the hollow of a 
rock, and brought it to their general in a helmet. 
Alexander showed this water to his soldiers, to 
encourage them to support their thirst with patience, 
as indicative of the proximity of a spring. Then, 
instead of drinking it, he poured it out on the 
ground, before the eyes of the whole army, unwill- 
ing to profit by what others could not share. 



70 


(®oing ^traiatjt Pack Home 


HE almost miraculous sagacity dis- 
played by some animals in finding 
their way home might well be an 
example to some human vagrants, 
and vagabonds. The homing 
instinct of pigeons is well-known, 
and has often been taken advantage of by armies 
in beleaguered cities. Cats are very home-loving, 
and have been known to find their way home hun- 
dreds of miles, though taken away in closed 
baskets. Dogs have even traversed continents in 
search of their masters. Still more interesting is 
Billinghurst’s Ass of Gibraltar. He was being 
shipped to Malta to join his owner there. The 
frigate, however, was wrecked on the Point de Gat; 
and in a sea that ran so high as to wreck a boat 
that put off, the ass, named Valiant, started out to 
swim. Without guide, compass or traveling map, 
he found his way home over more than two hundred 
miles, through a strange, mountainous, intricate 
country, intersected by streams, in a time so short 
that he could not have made one single false turn. 



71 


Cooperation ?|elps Potfj 

GENTLEMAN residing near Stirling, 
in Scotland, was fond of hunting, 
and kept two dogs; a pointer, to 
start the game, and a greyhound 
to run it down. When the season 
was over, it was discovered that 
they would go out by themselves, to hunt on their 
own account. To prevent this, he fastened an iron 
ring to the leather collar of the pointer, to prevent 
him from jumping and running. But even so the 
depredations continued; so the owner watched care- 
fully. Finally he discovered that, as soon as they 
thought themselves unobserved, the greyhound 
picked up in his mouth the iron ring, and carrying 
it, the precious pair set off to the hills, where they 
hunted as usual. Whenever the pointer scented the 
hare, the greyhound dropped the ring and dashed 
after the retreating hare, and caught him, bringing 
him back to the pointer for mutual consumption. 
Then he would pick up again the iron ring, and 
both dogs would, next morning, seem the most i 
innocent creatures in the world. * 

Similar is the old fable of the two Oriental beg- * 
gars, the one blind, the other paralytic. Although ^ 
they were both helpless, yet they managed easily | 
together, when the paralytic climbed on the shoul- j 
ders of the blind man, seeing for him, who walked i 
for both. ] 



72 


Cnbpins tfje tCcacijer 


Greek “tyrant,” or King, of Syra- 
cuse, in Sicily, was being visited by 
a friend of his, who did not hes- 
itate to express his envy of all the 
pomp and splendor of the royal 
court. He exclaimed, “I wish I 
could be in the King’s place for just a single day; 
how happy should I not feel!” The King immedi- 
ately granted his wish. Damocles was invested with 
crown and sceptre, he was seated on the throne; 
kneeling attendants brought him food, the ban- 
queters cheered and toasted him. Perfect satisfac- 
tion overwhelmed Damocles until he chanced to 
look upwards. Over his head hung a sharp sword, 
suspended by no more than a horse-hair, that might 
snap at any moment. Damocles grew pale, and 
jumped from the throne. “You see,” said the 
tyrant, “what kind of a life I lead. Trouble may 
arise, my wealth may disappear, my life may be 
destroyed at any moment. It is I who should envy 
your secure obscurity,” 



73 


Jflatterj> f}a& ite ^n'ce 


CROW was perched on a tree, hold- 
ing in his beak a piece of cheese 
he had just stolen. A fox passed 
by; and being hungry, bethought 
him of an expedient to seccure it 
He greeted the crow very courte- 
ously, and expressed his delight at seeing him, add- 
ing that if his voice was as beautiful as his shiny 
black feathers, he must certainly be the marvel 
of the forest. The crow, who had all his life been 
harshly criticized for both his color and croaking, 
felt pleased at finding some appreciation; for, of 
course, to crows, black color and croaking are far 
preferable to other colors or the nightingale’s song. 
So he started to show off his croak, in which act, 
however, he had to open his mouth, dropping the 
cheese, which the fox snapped up and gulped down. 
“Every flatterer lives at the expense of his dupe,” 
cried the fox in trotting away. “This lesson is 
surely worth a piece of cheese!” 



74 


iOtofep, tfjousi) Jfeto 

INCOLN used to tell a story he 
heard while practising law in Illi- 
nois. A farmer who lived near 
a marsh conceived a big idea 
in higher finance. So he went to 
a banker with his proposition. 
“There are at least ten million frogs in that marsh 
near my house; and I will arrest a couple of car- 
loads of them, and you can distribute them to the 
city restaurants that pay high prices for frogs’ 
legs. So I will stop the noise that keeps my family 
from sleeping, and make some money.” The 
banker assented, and the farmer set to work. 
After two weeks the farmer appeared, carrying a 
small basket. He looked weary, and was not a 
bit talkative; he threw the basket on the counter 
with the words, “there’s your frogs.” “Where are 
your two car-loads?” asked the banker. “There are 
not two car-loads in the whole world. According 
to the noise, I thought there must be a billion of 
them; and in two weeks I’ve only found six. 
There are two or three left yet, and the marsh 
is as noisy as ever. We have not yet caught up 
with any of our lost sleep. Here are the six, and 
I will not charge you a cent for them.” 



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practical ^pmpatl^p 

AINT Martin may, in his day, have 
been a wonder-working healer; 
but the picturesque circumstance 
which has preserved his memory 
to the present day was his charity 
to the poor. He was an officer in 
a Roman legion, and was very compassionate to 
all the needy. One day, after he had given away 
all the money he had with him, he was met by 
two beggars who were shivering in the cold. To 
alleviate their suffering, he took from his shoulders 
his military cloak, and as it was too strong 
to tear, he bade the beggars hold it in front 
ot him; then he drew his sword, and cut it in two, 
leaving the pieces in their hands. 



77 


^rlior 30ap 


RiNCE Nicholas of Montenegro 
once found that his country did not 
possess enough olive trees and 
vines. So he assembled his soldiers, 
and said to them, “You are heroes, 
all of you, but you will not work. 
Our country would be as rich as it is glorious if you 
would give as much attention to the works of peace 
as you do to the labors of war. I waited for you to 
recognize for yourselves that men must work, but I 
have waited long in vain. I now direct that every 
Montenegrin soldier who lives where vines can be 
grown shall this year plant 200 vines. Commanders 
of brigades shall plant twenty, commanders of bat- 
talions ten, officers of lower rank five, and non-com- 
missioned officers one olive tree apiece. Also, who- 
ever shall, of his own free will, plant 2,000 vines this 
year shall be free of taxes for ten years.” 

In the United States we have enlisted the school 
children for this great work; but even if the above 
story should be questioned, some day it will be made 
true, and all armies, clubs and societies plant vines 
instead of shedding blood, and plant the olive tree 
of peace. 



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Cxercfee OTortt) Raping jFor 

RAVELLING incognito in Italy, the 
emperor Joseph II had to stop in 
a village to have the iron rims of 
his carriage-wheels repaired. 
“You will have to wait,” said the 
blacksmith; “to-day is a holiday, 
and everybody is at church. I have nobody to blow 
the bellows.” “If that is all, go ahead,” said the 
emperor, “I will work them for you myself.” In 
half an hour the carriage was ready. “How much 
is it?” asked the emperor. “Six cents,” was the 
answer. The emperor gave him six dollars. The 
blacksmith was surprised, and wanted to return the 
money. “You have made a mistake, sir; you have 
given me six gold pieces; and besides, I have no 
change.” “Keep everything, my good fellow,” said 
Joseph, smiling; “the excess is for the pleasure and 
benefit of the exercise I had in blowing the bellows, 
it has kept me warm.” 

So great is this health value of work that many 
persons who suddenly lose their occupation fre- 
quently die soon after. It is our duties that keep 
us alive and sane. 



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®t)c Substance anb tfje ^ijaboto 


DOG had unexpectedly found a good 
piece of meat, and was going 
home, carrying it in his mouth. On 
his way, he had to cross a bridge, 
made of a single plank. As he 
happened to glance into the stream 
he noticed the reflection of the meat he was carry- 
ing, but he did not know it was only a reflection. 
Thinking it another piece of meat, he tried to catch 
it, in addition to the piece he was carrying. But 
in order to grasp it, he had to open his mouth; and, 
in doing so, the piece of real meat he was carrying 
dropped into the river; and with it, of course, dis- 
appeared also the reflection. So now he had lost 
both, and trotted home a wiser, if sadder, dog. “A 
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” 



So 


Biplomacp i^ecesgarp 


CHAEL Angelo was commissioned 
by the municipal authorities of 
Florence to erect on a public 
square a statue of David. He 
worked long and earnestly at the 
statue, and finally the wooden 
sheltering enclosure was removed, and the statue 
unveiled. It was generally admired, but some 
noblemen wanted to air their expertness in art by 
finding fault with the shape of David’s nose. 
Understanding the reason underlying this criticism, 
he pretended to be very grateful for its illumina- 
tion. He reerected the wooden shelter and was 
heard hammering and filing for several weeks. 
Finally he again took down the shelter, and invited 
the critics, who this time expressed themselves as 
perfectly satisfied with the change. Then Michael 
Angelo informed them that he had not made any 
change whatever on the nose, having merely added 
some ornament on the pedestal. There was no 
further criticism of his work. 



8i 


j5ot to tic too <@rasiping 


CELEBRATED doctor had cared for 
a little child during a dangerous 
disease. On his recovery, the 
grateful mother visited him, and 
said, “Doctor, there are services 
for which money is no equivalent. 
Not knowing how to recompense you, I embroid- 
ered this purse which I beg you to accept.” 
“Madam,” returned the doctor indignantly, “I have 
to pay rent just like anybody else, and the grocer 
and baker demand cash. Little presents may pre- 
serve friendship, but they do not pay bills.” “Well, 
doctor,” replied the distressed lady, “speak; name 
the amount of your charge !” “Five hundred dol- 
lars ! retorted the physician. The lady quietly 
opened the purse, drew out twenty hundred dollar 
bills, peeled off five of them, gave them to the physi- 
cian, restored the remainder to the purse, put it in 
her pocket, bowed ceremoniously, and departed. 



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Cben 0nimal£i $ractt£(e telecontrol 


MASTIFF, who was Indebted to the 
bounty of a neighbor rather than 
to that of his master, was acci- 
dentally for a whole day locked in 
the neighbor’s pantry, which was 
well stocked with milk, butter, 
bread and meat. When the maid opened the door, 
and saw the dog rush out, she trembled at the 
probable devastation. But everything was intact; 
and how much this meant was realized when the 
dog was seen to be so hungry as to throw himself 
on a poor bone. A poodle was in the habit of 
fetching his master’s dinner in a basket, and the 
food always remained intact. One day, however, 
he was, on the road, attacked by two other dogs. 
He defended himself and his charge bravely, till 
a third dog joined the aggressors, and the battle 
went against him. Only when he saw the dinner 
disappearing in the mouths of the others he turned 
around and himself swallowed as much of it as 
possible and as rapidly as he could, so that, at least, 
it should not all be lost to the family. 



iHiracltJf of Cooperation 

N the Western United States It used 
to be common for all the neigh- 
bors to gather, so as to help build 
a house, all in one or two days. 
This was called a “house raising.” 
Not very unlike was the “husking 
bee,” when many neighbors would, with fun and 
pleasantry, make short work of a tedious opera- 
tion. Still another form of American cooperation 
was the “spelling bee,” which was as amusing, as it 
was instructive. The country in which social co- 
operation is perhaps the most advanced, is Switzer- 
land. The neighbors would engage a single shep- 
herd for the village. The cheese products would 
also be manufactured by a single farmer, who 
would distribute the proceeds equitably. The 
famous Swiss watches are assembled in one single 
place, from parts made by various farmers during 
the long idle months of winter. Some families, 
for generations, never make anything but a certain 
wheel or spring, and thus become experts in its 
manufacture. The universal postal system, how- 
ever, is the most advanced form, 



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i&t!Sfeinesi£( of Eiest 

lARS and thieves must have good 
memories, to avoid detection; and 
ultimately, none but an honest man 
who speaks the truth, can endure. 
A peasant went to a market to 
replace a horse that had been 
stolen from him, and recognized his own among 
those that were for sale. He claimed it, as having 
been stolen from him three days before. “Impos- 
sible,” said the horse-dealer, “for I have had him 
three years.” “Well,” said the farmer, with his 
hands hiding the horse’s eyes, “we will make a 
test. In which eye is he blind?” “In the left eye,” 
answered the dealer. The farmer removed his hand, 
and the left eye was perfect. “Oh yes, I made a 
mistake,” cried the panic-stricken dealer, “I mean, 
the right eye.” The farmer removed his other hand, 
and all persons present saw that the horse’s sight 
was perfect. “Evidently you are the thief,” shouted 
the farmer, haling the dealer before the judge, 
who gave the farmer the horse. 



85 



e^)^S •^w%i «fv^6 o^G\# •FO^o •FG^o iPvfe i^0^6 fi^5^S 9F0^5 


Consiolatton ut tfie joiner of ^nffuence 

OBERT Browning wrote a dramatic 
story of a poor Italian silk weaver 
girl, who however was so cheerful 
that she used to sing to herself as 
she went to work, and returned 
home. Her song was: “God’s in 
his heaven. All’s right with the world!” One 
evening, however, she was tired and discouraged 
and felt that her life was in vain; and she falls 
asleep comforted only by the thought that no doubt 
religious confidence in God’s ways must be right. 

So she sings, while falling asleep, “All service ranks 
the same with God; whose puppets we are; there 
is no last or first.” 

The dramatist, however, has taken his audience 
into three houses by which the poor weaver had | 
passed, and in each of which her cheerful song had 1 
done much good. In the first, she keeps a man 
from committing a great sin with the woman whose 
husband she has murdered. In the second it keeps 
a bridegroom, who had been deceived in his bride, 
from abandoning her. In the third it encourages 
a youth to set out immediately, not knowing that 
watching police have instructions to arrest him if he 
stays. 



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IBanser£( of Poasittns 

HE “Baltimore and Ohio’’ was one 
of the earliest railroads in the 
United States ; yet to-day, it is 
practically no more than a freight 
road for the Pennsylvania Railroad 
system. What was the cause of 
this disaster? A single boast, made by the Balti- 
more and Ohio’s president, Mr. Garret, at a ban- 
quet, in Baltimore. Thrown off his guard by the 
wine he had drunk, he told his audience of a secret 
arrangement by which he was to acquire control of 
the Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore Rail- 
road, the very next morning. This would have 
given his own road a free entrance to New York. 
But, at the banquet, sat the then president of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. He immediately got his 
hat and coat, and at utmost speed reached the home 
of the owner of the P. W. & B. His offer of a 
much higher price for the controlling interest was 
accepted, and the small, young Pennsylvania lines 
became the nation’s greatest system. Subsequently, 
the Baltimore and Ohio had to build its own line 
into Philadelphia; but its effort to enter New York 
threw it into bankruptcy, and it was bought in by 
its rival, and kept harmless. And all this through 
a single boast. 



88 


^otD to ICearn 3l^e£(tgnatton 


Hindoo woman was in great grief 
at the death of her child. She 
went to a temple to pray that 
he might come back to life; and 
as no answer was vouchsafed she 
visited the temples of all the other 
divinities. Finally she came to that of Buddha, and 
offered her prayers, requesting aid of the chief 
priest. The latter told her that her son would 
be restored to life if she were to put in his mouth 
a grain of mustard coming from some house where 
nobody had ever died. So the woman started on 
her search. But in that country, where new houses 
are rarely if ever built, except by strangers, she 
could not find any such. Gradually she began to 
realize that death is universal, and that grief at 
loss of relatives is general. So she resigned her- 
self to the inevitable, but she entered the service 
of the temple, and continued in prayer and good 
works. 



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Compaie(gton tn t^t ^oioer o{ t^t ^ooreist 

HE Buddhist religion, one of the 
most numerous in the world, was 
founded by a prince, called 
Gautama. At his birth it had been 
foretold he would, through com- 
passion, forsake his royal career. 
His parents, who counted on him to perpetuate 
their dynasty, therefore educated him in a palace 
from which were rigidly excluded all persons that 
could excite feelings of that description. After he 
had been married to a charming princess Yasodhara, 
it was considered safe for him to be taken to 
visit the capital; but all unfortunate people were 
carefully excluded from the route of his procession. 
By some inadvertence, however, a sick beggar, an 
old woman, and a funeral crossed his path; and 
he eagerly inquired into their nature and meaning. 
That same night, while lying by the side of his 
beautiful wife he determined to leave all his wealth, 
position, wife and baby to go out into the wilder- 
ness to discover some remedy for these three evils. 
After many years of meditation, as he sat under 
a “bo’’ tree, he was enlightened, and he spent the 
rest of his life teaching that revelation to the people 
of his country, making his wife and son his first 
converts. 



91 


gour Hatiitt are pour ©esitinp 


N November 15, 1913, the “World” 
published this : 

It is hard to break old habits and 
hard to forget old friendships. If 
you don’t believe it here is the 
proof ; 

Way back in 1870 Big Ed Rice and Little Horace 
Hoven formed a friendship and a partnership. The 
friendship was born of sentiment; the partnership 
was formed for the purpose of separating banks 
from their money without due process of law. In the 
course of the partnership both were arrested many 
times. After a quarter century the friendship was 
broken. 

Yesterday there was received at Police Head- 
quarters a letter from the chief of police of Munich, 
Bavaria, in which it was narrated that two men who 
had given their names as James Harrison Morton 
and Horace Bell had tried to rob a Munich bank of 
40,000 marks. Deputy Commissioner Dougherty 
looked at the photographs inclosed and said : 
“They’ve grown older, but they’re the same old 
pair.” 

Then he said James Harrison Morton was Big 
Ed Rice and Horace Bell was Little Horace Hoven. 
The former is now seventy-two years old, the latter 
sixty-five. 



92 


Heroisim at ^omt 

N Marseilles raged the plague, in 
1720. The doctors met and de- 
cided that they would better under- 
stand how to treat the plague if 
the corpse of a victim should be 
dissected; but such a dissection 
meant inevitable, and immediate death. It was 
not even sure that such costly information would 
lead to effective remedies; but one of them, Henri 
Guyon immediately volunteered. He made his will, 
devising all his possessions to charitable institutions. 
As last food he took the “viaticum,” the eucharist. 
Then he took paper, pencil and drawing instru- 
ments, and his surgical instruments. After several 
hours of dissecting he wrote down what he dis- 
covered, and soaked his notes in vinegar, the then 
most used disinfectant. Then he lay down, for 
already he felt ill. In twelve hours, he was dead. 
He is little known, nowadays; but no martyr ever 
was more heroic. 



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Care for parents 

VEN animals know enough to care 
for their aged parents and rela- 
tives; how much more should not 
human beings feel that sacred obli- 
gation! Such stories are numerous; 
only a few can here be mentioned. 
Ants are so kind to each other that when an ant has 
lost its feelers by age or accident, companions will 
gently lead them around to feed, or bring them food. 
Rats are not pleasant creatures; but one rat has 
been known gently to lead, by the ear, a large blind 
rat, to a place where they could easily bring it from 
the remoter parts of the floor, food which it nibbled 
quietly. A cavalry captain in a French regiment 
mentions that a horse belonging to his company be- 
came incapable to eat his hay or grind his oats, from 
age. For two months he was fed by two horses, on 
his right and his left, who drew the hay out of their 
racks, chewed it, and then put it before the old horse. 
They did the same with the oats, which he was 
then able to assimilate. 



94 


d^bebtence tfje Hato of Hife 


HE chick that will not obey the 
mother-hen’s call is killed by the 
eagle. Wm. J. Long puts it as 
follows: “The summer wilderness 
is just one vast school-house of 
many rooms, in which a mul- 
titude of wise, patient mothers are teaching their 
little ones, and of which our kindergartens are 
crude and second-rate imitations. Here are 
practical schools, technical schools. Obedience is 
life; that is the first great lesson. Life itself is the 
issue at stake in this forest education; therefore is 
the discipline stern as death. One who watches long 
over any of the wood-folk broods must catch his 
breath at times at the savage earnestness underlying 
even the simplest lesson. Few wild mothers will 
tolerate any trifling or wilfulness in their little 
schools; and the more intelligent, like the crows and 
wolves, mercilessly kill their weak and wayward 
pupils. Pity we men have not learned this 
‘primary’ lesson better I” 



95 


tBt)t Jfirst ilonep Hincolii Carneb 


6on after beginning to practice law 
in Springfield, Lincoln took hold of j 
a criminal case where there was 1 
thought to be little chance of suc-j 
cess. However, by concentrating] 
his powers he accomplished his pur- i 
pose, and for his services promptly received five 
hundred dollars. Next morning he was visited by 
a legal friend who found him sitting before a table, ' 
counting over and over the money spread In front - 
of him. Happy like a child, he shouted, “I never I 
had so much money In my life before, all put to- j 
getherl” Sobering down, he said, “I have just <! 
received five hundred dollars; If It had only i 
amounted to seven hundred and fifty I would go 
over and acquire a quarter section of land, and 
settle it upon my old step-mother. ‘‘If that Is all 
that you lack,” said the visitor, “I will advance you j 
the amount on a note !” Lincoln gratefully accepted, ( 
and thus provided for the declining days of his step- 
mother. 



96 


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 


‘Hamlet’ tDitf) Hanilet Heft ([^ut 



HEN Louis XIV used to go hunting, 
the supply train would carry forty 
bottles of wine, so that the king 
would have plenty. Of course the 
servants were to have some also; 
indeed they were paid extra to dis- 
tribute it properly. One day, the king, while out 
hunting, grew thirsty, and asked for a glass of wine. 
“Sire,” was the response, “there is none left.” 
“What, were not the usual forty bottles taken 
along?” demanded the king indignantly. “Certainly, 
sire,” was the apologetic response; “but the follow- 
ers had to be provided for.” “Well, in the future,” 
ordered the king, “you will always take along forty- 
one bottles, so that at least there will be a single one 
for me.” 


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tIPije Clasfsi iWirrors tfic Wtatfftt 


PRIEST once brought up an ourang- 
outang, who became so fond of him 
that it was desirous of accompany- 
ing him everywhere. Therefore 
he had to shut it up in his room 
whenever he was to perform ser- 
vice in church. One day, however, the animal 
escaped, followed the priest to the church, silently 
mounted the pulpit’s sounding-board, and lay still 
until the beginning of the sermon. Creeping to the 
edge, and seeing the priest, he imitated the priest’s 
every gesture so grotesquely, that the large congre- 
gation was forced to laugh. The priest rebuked the 
congregation, in vain; the more excited he became, 
the louder he vociferated and the funnier grew the 
monkey’s action, until the congregation burst out 
into a loud laughter. When a friend showed the 
outraged priest the cause, even the latter could 
hardly restrain himself, while the church servants 
were removing the affectionate monkey. 



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^ers:onalttp more ^Important tfian $o£(ttton 

INCOLN, at one time, was employed 
as a clerk in the store of a Mr. 
Kirkpatrick; but the latter was so 
overbearing that finally Lincoln left 
him. During the time of his clerk- 
ship, however, Lincoln had been so 
kindly and courteous to the customers that he had 
won their good will. That was the time when it 
was found that a war with Black Hawk could not be 
avoided, and Governor Reynold of Illinois issued a 
call for volunteers. Being out of employment, Lin- 
coln naturally enlisted. As soon as the company was 
full, the men held a meeting at Richland, for the 
election of officers. LFrged by his companions, Lin- 
coln consented to become a candidate for captain. 
The prevailing mode of election was very simple: 
the candidates were placed apart, and the men went 
and stood with him whom they chose. When the 
word was given, at least three out of every four 
went over to Lincoln, leaving his opponent, his for- 
mer employer, Mr. Kirkpatrick, in so bad a minority 
that even his small group deserted him, and finally 
he himself had to go over to Lincoln’s side to make 
it unanimous. 



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Pab ^romisiesi Proken 


N arriving before Tyana, the Roman 
emperor Aurelian found that its 
inhabitants had closed its gates 
before him. In his anger at this 
opposition he swore he would not 
leave even a single dog alive 
therein, and started siege operations. The soldiers 
were delighted, anticipating a great booty. On 
taking the town, Aurelian who, in the meanwhile, 
had grown cool, said to his troops, who pleaded with 
him to keep his word, “you may, if you please, kill 
all the dogs, but harm none of the inhabitants.” 



lOI 


Bangers! of fCijroining 


HROWING is a trait peculiarly char- 
acteristic of the monkey, and while 
usually not fatal, is productive of 
many serious accidents to those who 
are trying to escape, of much ill 
feeling, of resentment and retalia- 
tion, and primarily, of lack of self-control. An 
instance in point is an occurrence at Bindrabund, 
in India, where monkeys are, by the fakirs, so 
reverenced as descendants of the semi-divinity 
Hanuman, that they practically rule the town, rang- 
ing around in troops, and relentlessly pelting any 
person who may have offended any single ape, with 
bamboo, dirt or stones. Two young Bengal cavalry 
officers were attacked by a troup of apes, at one 
of whom one of the officers unwisely fired. Im- 
mediately the whole body of apes, and the Hindu 
fakirs, furiously assailed them with missiles of all 
descriptions, so that they were forced to flee for 
their lives; and in endeavoring to pass the Jumna, 
both were drowned. In ancient times people were 
executed by being stoned. 




102 



Chen Animals Besipifie a 


GENTLEMAN had trained two dogs 
to act as turn-spits in his kitchen, 
alternately running a wheel. One 
of them, not liking his employ* 
ment, hid himself on the day when 
it was his turn to work. His com- 
panion, therefore, was forced to mount in his wheel, 
in his stead. After the work was over, the dog, 
by crying and wagging his tail, made to the per- 
sons present a sign to follow him. Immediately 
he conducted them to a garret, where he dislodged 
the idle dog, and killed him immediately. 

Even animals scorn a person who shirks his share 
of work. No work does itself, and whoever leaves 
any necessary work undone, is simply burdening 
somebody else with it, who will have to do it prob- 
ably at an unexpected, and therefore most incon- 
venient time. For every smiling shirk there is some 
unjustly distressed person. A shirk is really mean 
and cowardly. 



103 


?|otD to Cfjoosie one’s Purbens 


HE famous Greek fable-writer was 
a slave. Once when his owner was \ 
taking a journey his fellow-slaves j 
were bidden each take part of the ; 
baggage. Aesop immediately 
chose the heaviest bundle, that of , 
the provision of bread, and was roundly ridiculed ' 
by his apparently more fortunate fellow-slaves, i 
But every day his bundle grew a little lighter; and 
finally, when there was none left, he walked along 
almost as comfortably as his master himself. The 
laugh was now on the other side. 



Bangers of il^ougf) ^Iaj» 

LARGE colony of rooks had, for 
many years, resided in a grove by 
the side of a river. One evening 
the idle rascals were raising a ruc- 
tion chasing each other, when the 
sharp beak of one of them broke 
the wing of his neighbor, who fell into the stream. 
There ensued a general cry of distress from the 
whole group that hovered over their fellow with 
every expression of anxiety. Animated by their 
sympathy, and perhaps by the language of counsel 
known to themselves, he sprang into the air, and 
by one strong effort reached the point of a rock 
that projected into the river. The joy became 
loud and universal; but, alas! it was soon changed 
into notes of lamentation, for the poor wounded 
bird, in attempting to fly towards his nest dropped 
again into the river and was drowned, amidst the 
moans of his whole fraternity. 



4 






B^tbtnile ^eber feafe 




ILEPHANTS are exceedingly Intelli- 
gent, although their eyes seems so 
small, and their forms so awkward. 
They are kindly and faithful; 
and being considerate will avoid 
stepping on children. They will 
not even revenge themselves by crushing human 
beings who annoy them in small ways. One of 
their favorite methods of moderate revenge is to 
fill their trumps with water, and squirt it at the 
offender. At least two such stories are told. One 
occurred in India. On the way to their watering 
place, the elephants passed by native bazaars, where 
they were often offered dainties or fruits, so that 
they were in the habit of poking their trumps into 
the various shops. A tailor, as a joke, pricked the 
trump with a needle; and the offended elephant, on 
his way back, repaid him with a copious squirt of 
dirty water. In the Paris Zoological Garden the 
same thing occurred to a painter who was repro- 
ducing him in the ridiculous attitude of the lifted 
trump, which was produced by an attendant pre- 
tending to throw apples into his mouth. 




^anctitp of ^ome 





VEN birds have a sense of property 
rights to the fruits of their labor. A 
sparrow had, in early spring, taken 
possession of an old swallow’s 
nest, and had therein laid some 
eggs, when the original builder and 
owner of the castle made her appearance, and 
claimed possession. The sparrow held her ground, 
however, even against swallow reinforcements. 
There was held a council of war, as result of which, 
with still greater reinforcements, the swallows all 
at once brought building materials of sticks and 
clay, and walled the sparrow in, so that she perished 
in the stronghold she had so bravely defended. 

The cuckoo is the only bird that does not build 
any nest, but dispossesses weaker birds. His name is 
a term of reproach among birds and human beings. 


Cbcn Animate jFaitfjful 

T is their fidelity that endears dogs 
to men, and for which owners 
ungrudgingly pay license fees for 
them. Stories of canine fidelity 
are very common. Two must suf- 
fice. A chimney-sweep told his 
dog to guard a soot-bag, which he had carelessly 
thrown on a narrow street. The dog would not 
budge, even for a cart-driver, who brutally drove 
right over him, crushing him to death. Not less 
well-known is the English bloodhound of a French 
nobleman who was murdered by highway men at 
Montargis. He led a friend of his master to the 
spot, and whined till, on digging, his master’s body 
was found. Later, meeting the murderer, he 
sprang at his throat, and carried on so long till 
the matter reached the King’s ear. The King ap- 
pointed a battle between the man and the dog. 
The latter succeeded in throwing down the man, 
who confessed the murder. He was then convicted 
and beheaded. 

So numerous are the cases in which dogs have 
saved human lives at the risk of their own, that we 
can mention only those who saved men from snow 
on Mt. St. Bernard, the military field nurse-dogs, 
and those who save from drowning and burning. 



109 



D3P03^Q3P03^EOii03®CQ®03SS 

cAAa irv^ ^As JrWa ^Wo qAA» S^iA» &W* 


€t)en 9nttnal£( Cooperate 

HE stories of cooperation among 
animals, to effect results which 
would be utterly impossible for any 
single one of them, are so plenti- 
ful, common, and interesting that 
the chief wonder is that human 
beings have not better taken to heart that moral 
lesson. We are so familiar with the marvels of 
cooperation among coral insects, bees, ants, beavers, 
and birds, that they have lost much of their motive 
power and influence. Marmots, in the Alps, line 
their habitations with hay. Some cut the grass, 
others collect it in heaps; one or two act as wagons 
by lying on their backs, and having the hay loaded 
between their legs; last, some others draw them 
by the tails to their dens, where the living wagons 
spring up and shake themselves. Acting as wagons 
being the least desirable part of the work, this 
office is taken by each in turn. 



no 


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 

^rabe §ou Can ^etome 

T the time of the Revolution, in 
1793, the royalists, driven to de- 
spair, decided to invite the English 
to occupy the port of Toulon, on 
the Mediterranean Sea, rather than 
to yield it to the Republicans. 
The Republic’s first business, therefore, was to 
drive out the English; and among the officers of 
artillery was Napoleon Bonaparte. Needing a 
secretary, he asked for the detail of some sergeant 
or corporal. On presenting himself, the latter was 
directed to sit on the ground while writing. 
Hardly was the letter finished, but a gun-shot 
covered the letter with earth. “Good!” exclaimed 
the literary subaltern, “I shall not need any sand,” — 
which in those days was universally employed in 
the place of blotting-paper. Bonaparte was 
delighted with his coolness; and later made him 
field-marshal, for the then subaltern was none other 
than the famous Junot. 

So also Lincoln used to tell of a Union soldier 
who was in the act of drinking from a tin cup, when 
a confederate shot destroyed the handle, without 
injuring either the soldier’s fingers, or the cup it- 
self, which fell to the ground, spilling the 
contents. The Union soldier merely turned towards 
the enemy, bowed, and cried, “Not even if you 
tried could you do that again, Johnny Rebel I” 

III 





2Leamms Cures Crucitp to Animals 


J. Gould relates the story of a 
Spanish learned reformer who by 
the reactionary authorities was 
thrown into prison. His jailors 
were brutal peasant soldiers who 
whiled away their leisure watching 
the death-agonies of ants and spiders, on which 
they had thrown boiling water. The prisoner sent 
word to the governor he would like to deliver a 
lecture on ants and spiders; and as a novelty, the 
prisoner was given permission. Curiosity and be- 
ing bored drew him a large audience which 
included his keepers. Without a word of criticism 
of their behavior, he effected his purpose by enlist- 
ing their interest in the marvels of their activities. 
He portrayed the ants’ way of breathing, their 
breeding, their mutual enslavement, their assistance 
of the crippled. Then he pictured the spiders 
weaving, the circular trap-door of their tunnels, 
their love of music; and how one had crawled 
onto the arm of a boy playing the violin, and had ' 
been killed by some cruel person. The soldiers i 
felt sorry for it, and no more tormented animals, i 
Unfortunately the prisoner died in his cell. 



1 12 



3n tHnion tfjcre is ^trenstti 

N old fable has it that a dying 
farmer, whose chief grief was the 
disharmony among his sons, as- 
sembled them around his death- 
bed. He asked for a bundle of 
fagots from the fire-place, and 
begged each of his sons to try and break it in 
two, which, of course, was impossible. He then 
had the bundle untied, when each stick was easily 
breakable. The most striking examples of the 
power of union are Germany and Italy. When 
the Pope won his victory over the German emperor, 
in the middle ages, Germany split into independent 
states. The result was Germany’s insignificance 
for four centuries, and Napoleon easily overran 
the whole of central Europe. But when Bismark 
succeeded in uniting those states, Germany took 
Paris, in 1871. So with Italy. The papal claims 
to certain provinces as Papal States kept Italy 
separated; and from 800 A. D. to 1871 A. D., 
a full thousand years, Italy was the plaything 
alternately of France and Austria. When Gari- 
baldi and Cavour united Italy, it became a world- 
power, and took Tripoli as a colony in 1912. 




Beferemc to rtje Sgcb 


NE day, not long before he started 
for Washington to assume the Pres- 
idency, Lincoln was visited by 
an old woman called “Aunt 
Sally.” Though he was conversing 
with two men of national renown, 
he left them. Rushing to meet her, he seated her 
in the seat of honor; then he introduced his distin- 
guished guests, and put her at ease by telling what 
good times he used to have at her house on “San- 
gamon bottom.” “Gentlemen,” said he, “this is a 
good old friend of mine. She can bake the best 
flapjacks you ever tasted, and many a time has she 
baked them for me!” “Aunt Sally” then pulled 
out a huge pair of coarse yarn socks and handed 
them to Mr. Lincoln. He took the stockings by the 
toes, holding one in each hand beside his great feet, 
as he exclaimed, “She got my latitude and longitude 
about right, didn’t she, gentlemen?” Then he took 
both the good woman’s hands in his, told her how 
pleased he was with her remembrance, promised to 
take the stockings to Washington, wear them in the 
White House, and think of her when he did so. 







of ^uman persistence 

IX years ago, while engraving the 
designs for the new French bank- 
notes, F 1 o r i a n was suddenly 
stricken with paralysis, and the 
hand whose skill had made him 
famous was useless forever. He 
did not complain; he did not resign himself to the 
inevitable, he did not sit down in despair. He 
allowed his wife and young daughters to support 
him only while learning to engrave with his left 
hand. Gradually through scrawling, sketching, 
drawing, water-color painting, with ever-increasing 
precision, he arrived again at designing for typog- 
raphers, and to absolute mastery over the graver’s 
tools. The famous art critic Arsene Alexandre a 
few weeks ago saw him at work, his wooden block 
screwed to a table, his left hand plying the tools 
with all the deftness his now dead right hand had 
formerly possessed, his speechless lips smiling, his 
face radiant with happiness. To such men fate has 
no terrors. 



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Snfjuman iBargaittfit ^oib 

N Venice lived a money-lender who 
had, since many years, borne a 
grudge against a liberal merchant, 
because he sometimes loaned money 
without interest. This merchant, 
being approached for a loan by a 
friend who wished to get married, found himself 
unable to do so at that moment, all his ships then 
being on the sea. So he went to the rich money- 
lender who seemed glad to give him the money, 
without interest; exacting, for form’s sake only, 
said he, a pound of the merchant’s flesh nearest the 
heart. When the day of payment came, the mer- 
chant’s galleys had not yet arrived, and the money- 
lender in open court demanded the literal fulfilment 
of the bond, which, of course, meant the merchant’s 
death. All seemed in his favor till a woman bar- 
rister noticed the bond did not contain mention of 
a single drop of blood; which, if he should shed, 
he would be guilty of conspiracy to murder. Of 
course, the usurer was caught and was now will- 
ing to take back his money, but the court ruled he 
had already refused it, and was entirely at the 
merchant’s mercy. 




3l&esiuUsi of ^laptng foiti) ^lartn ^ignalfit 

HERE was, once upon a time, a group 
of shepherds who helped each 
other in any emergency that arose, 
so that all lived in security and pros- 
perity. So ready were they to 
protect each other from wolves and 
other dangers, that a young shepherd thought it 
would be amusing to see them come together; so. 
he shouted out, “The wolves are upon us!” When 
the shepherds assembled, he laughed at them, and 
told them it was only a “practical joke.” One night, 
however, the wolves really came. Then he ran 
around asking for help; but very naturally no one 
stirred, being afraid of being made sport of again. 
So he fought off the wolves as best he could alone, 
but lost most of his sheep. 



Cfje 0nimalg tijat i|um 


HE only monkey who can sing is a 
small gibbon, called a wow-wow. 
He can run through all the semi- 
tones of the octave, and in such a 
manner that it is hard to tell which 
of the group is doing it. It is 
reported that there are some wow-wow monkeys 
at school in countries other than Eastern Asia. 





Wltalti) JLiti m 3nbus!trp 

N industrious peasant had a large 
family, chiefly of sons, who rely- 
ing on his labor, had become some- 
what lazy. Feeling the approach 
of death, he was anxious about 
their future; so he called them all 
around him. As a parting secret he told them 
that he had hidden in his field a treasure, which 
was to belong to whoever found it. After his 
death, the sons dug the field over and over, but 
found nothing. Finally, in despair, they planted a 
crop. In autumn, they harvested an exceptional 
amount, due to the thorough ploughing. Then they 
realized that their father’s hidden treasure was 
industry. 



120 






HE Dukes of Croy became German 
sovereign princes in i8oi. When 
the present Duke was a minor, his 
guardian, at his request, instituted 
proceedings to debar from princely 
rank the offspring of his cousin 
Prince Philip, as punishment for his having married 
an English woman not of the nobility. But in 1913 
that same Prince of Croy fell in love with Miss 
Nancy Leishman, daughter of the American Am- 
bassador, who of course did not belong to the 
nobility. Now, of course, because of the precedent 
which he himself had set, and which he had per- 
suaded the German courts to recognize, his wife will 
not be recognized as duchess, nor her children be 
able to succeed the Prince on his throne. 






JSo pour Butp, anir Crust in (^oU 

N Italian impresario arranged a 
concert for M m e. Malibran, 
promising her a hundred dollars. 
The attendance was slim, and the 
impresario stood to gain nothing, 
if not lose money. As he was poor, 
and his family were in need, this was to him a 
great misfortune. “Can you take less?” he anxiously 
asked the singer who was being congratulated, ex- 
plaining his unfortunate situation. “Not a cent less,” 
responded she; and he paid her the full amount. 
Then the lady handed back to him the gold he had 
given her, saying, “I insisted on having my full 
payment so that I might have the pleasure of giv- 
ing you the whole;” and she left the room with 
tears in her eyes. 



122 


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^elfControl anb ^osipitalitp 

N the Arabian desert the need of 
hospitality is so great, that it has 
grown into a sacred duty; and 
after an Arabian has offered a way- 
farer a little salt and bread, he feels 
it his duty to protect his guest’s life 
while staying with him. On an occasion an Arabian 
host discovered from his guest’s conversation that 
the latter was the man who, years ago, had 
murdered the father of the former, and whom, for 
years, he had sought in vain. His first impulse 
was to wreak his revenge upon his guest; but his 
self-respect asserted itself. So he said nothing until 
the morning; but when the guest was about to leave, 
he told the guest to hasten away; for, said he, “As 
soon as you are out of sight, you have ceased being 
my guest. Then I shall mount my fleetest steed 
standing here, and I shall pursue you, and kill you 
in vengeance if I succeed in catching up with you. 
But you have not succeeded in making me forget the 
sacredness of the duties of hospitality.” 



123 





Bifitmction tte ^rice 



liELD-MARSHALL Lefevre invited an 
I old comrade to visit him in his 
palace at Paris, and they both 
inspected his establishment, his 
carriages, his liveried attendants, 
and his garments ; — which in every 
way befitted a high dignitary of Napoleon’s empire. 
“Well,” said the visitor, at last, “I must say that 
you are one of the luckiest men in the world.” 
“Would you like to own all that?” inquired the 
marshal, quizzically. “Why certainly!” exclaimed 
the enthusiastic and envious comrade. “Very well, 
it’s quite easy,” responded the dignitary. “You go 
into the Courtyard, and I will place two soldiers at 
each window opening on it. They will shoot at you ; 
and if you escape, I will make you a present of 
all for which you envy me. That is the way I 
earned it.” 


124 













^tural Srsuments! i5ot altoaps ^ounii 

RGUING on false foundations is likely 
to result in very surprising results. 
Lincoln had great doubts as to his 
right to emancipate the slaves 
under the war power. In discuss- 
ing the question, he used to liken 
the case to that of the boy who, when asked how 
many legs his calf would have, if he called its tail 
its leg, replied, “Five.” To this was made the 
prompt response, that calling the tail a leg, would 
not make it one. This kind of a logical fallacy is 
called that of an “undistributed middle,” in which a 
word is used in a double sense. This also is the basis 
of most jokes and conundrums. 

A certain man, told of by Prof. James of 
Harvard, would never eat potato soup. When 
asked the reason, he answered that his mother had 
just eaten it before she fell down a flight of stairs, 
and died. Likewise, there was a very credulous man 
who sneered at vaccination as valueless. Asked 
why he thought so, he said, “I used to know a 
lovely child who was compelled to submit to vac- 
cination, yet he died two days later.” “Tell us how !” 
was the rejoinder. “Oh, he fell down from a tree 
he had climbed. After that, just go and have 
your children vaccinated!” 

126 




Banger of Pab ^ostture 


HE battle of Areola had lasted three 
days, and Napoleon’s army was ex- 
hausted. Nevertheless it was neces- 
sary to appoint sentries to guard 
the sleeping soldiers. That was 
the very night that Bonaparte chose 
‘ to wander around his camp incognito, to observe 
> how much discipline and alertness his army 
possessed under these trying circumstances; for 
under usual ones alertness would have been 
[no more than common duty. One sentinel, over- 
i come by fatigue, began by resting a little in unsol- 
dierly posture, and in a moment he was asleep, 
f Bonaparte finds him, takes his gun, and mounts 
I guard in his place. The soldier wakes, and recog- 
Inizing him, cries, “I am ruined.” “Cheer up,” 
'returned Bonaparte gently, “after such fatigue it is 
not unnatural even for a man as brave as you to 
[fall asleep; but the next time, choose your time 
-better!” 



127 





<©o!J tEt}06t tofjo lltlp t!Ci)msttiit6 

LPHONso V, King of Aragon, was 
out hunting, when, on finding him- 
self alone, he met a peasant who 
was in great distress because his 
ass, loaded with flour, had sunk 
into the mire. Alphonso immedi- 
ately dismounted, and after considerable efforts 
managed to disengage the faithful beast. Hardly 
had they succeeded in this, than they were joined 
by the king s escort who, on seeing him covered 
with mud, made a great ado, procured him new 
clothing, and unconsciously revealed his identity. 
Xhe peasant, amazed at finding that his willing 
helper was the King, began to make his excuses, 
and beg his pardon. But the King reassured him, 
insisting that men were made for mutual service. 
Similar stories are told about the twin deities 
Castor and Pollux, and about Hercules. 



128 



fluffing (Easilp Calleb 


YOUNG man, desiring to bathe in a 
stream, took off his clothes, and, 
to insure their safety, put upon 
them a card on which he had 
written, “Do not touch these 
clothes; I have just had the scarlet 
fever.” So he dipped into the water, his mind per- 
fectly at rest about the clothes. On concluding his 
bath, he was struck dumb with anxiety at not find- 
ing them where he had left them. However, he 
found his card, and on it the following addition to 
what he himself had written: “I have just had 
scarlet fever, so I do not fear it; thank you for the 
clothes.” 



129 


Hlnaenuitp tCriumpfis! ober BifficuUte£( 

STARLING was thirsty, and wanted 
to drink in a narrow, high pitcher. 
But his beak was too short. So he 
tried to break it, by striking it; but 
the glass is too hard. He tries to 
upset the pitcher, but it is too 
heavy. Then he brings little stones and drops them 
within, to make the level of the water rise. So he 
continues until he can drink at ease. 



130 



0! se OJ S! !g Qi ^ SB Si SS ^ Ql S! R! ^ 


^ot ^ergonalitied 

CLERGYMAN Ventured to say, in 
Lincoln’s presence, during the war, 
that he hoped “the Lord was on 
their side.” “I am not at all con- 
cerned about that,” replied Mr. 
Lincoln, “for I know that the Lord 
is always on the side of the right. But it is my con- 
stant anxiety and prayer that / and this nation should 
be on the Lord^s side,** 




n is ss n ^ !s s! Qi M ss ^ Oi n EH @ 


CottQuereb bp ^ersiisitence 

HARE and a tortoise were holding 
a conversation, each extolling his 
own abilities. The tortoise finally 
offered to race the hare, who con- 
sented out of fun, so much did 
he despise the tortoise ; for each 
tortoise. Finally he went to sleep ; but when he 
was so proud of his own chief ability that he did not 
appreciate the good points of the other. So they 
started; but the tortoise was so slow, that the hare 
sat down on the way to Insult the slowness of the 
awakened he saw that the tortoise had reached, 
the goal before him. 





^ 1^1 p PI ^ yj ^ yj ^ ^ ^ IS ^ 


CSuicfe tirfjmbing ^tctmatp 

VERY well-known close-fisted Eng- 
lish financier was traveling in Eng- 
land in a stage-coach of the olden 
days. On a moor, however, the 
stage-coach was held up by high- 
waymen, who stood the passengers 
up in a row so as better to plunder them. Just as 
his turn was about to come, he begged the robber 
to wait a moment. Taking out a ten pound note, 
he handed it to his yet unplundered companion, with 
the words, ‘‘John, here is the money I borrowed 
from you yesterday I’* 



133 


Cfjaritp of ^clf=5l|elp 


N Eastern prince had an only and 
beloved Son, who was to inherit his 
estates at his death. But the Son 
grew weary of waiting, and in the 
middle of the night fled with what- 
ever wealth he could lay his hands 
on. In the far country, he spent all his money in riot- 
ous living. Then he sought aid from those who had 
enjoyed his feasts, but they drove him off. Although 
starving, he did not return home, because of his theft 
of the money, and because he had grown so brutal- 
ized he had lost his love for his Father. So he took 
up the existence of a vagabond, scorned by all. 

The Father, in the meanwhile, became King of a 
great country. However, he never ceased to long 
for his prodigal Son, and looked down over the fields 
every evening, ever hoping to discover his return- 
ing. Indeed, one evening he did see him, and im- 
mediately sent out soldiers to bring the outcast into 
the palace, by force, if necessary. The Son, first, 
pled for liberty; but he was overpowered, and 
brought into the presence of the King, whom he did 
not recognize. The Son continued his struggles to 



134 


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ir8^ c#v^ arCNa SWd 3vS 9v^ 9^^ &Wo «^V%i 


be released, fighting desperately; so the King bade 
him be released, and he fled precipitately. 

The King then went apart and put off his royal 
robes, donning the garb of a vagabond similar to 
his Son’s. He then caught up with him during the 
night, and slept near him. In the morning he offered 
his Son employment on the King’s farm at the very 
meanest work. The Son first refused, but allowed 
himself to be persuaded, and both worked side by 
side until the Son gained the first satisfaction at earn- 
ing his living honestly. Then the King caused better 
employment to be offered to the Son, still continue 
ing to work by his side. When the Son had suc- 
ceeded in learning the new lesson, the King caused 
yet better employment to be offered him, still work- 
ing by his side as a fellow-workman, encouraging 
and instructing him, fitting him for better work. 
Finally the Son was appointed manager of all the 
King’s estates. When he approved himself in this 
position by wisdom and firmness, the King put on his 
royal robes, sat on his throne, called his courtiers, 
and summoned his new manager. The King then 
recognized him publicly as his long-lost Son, and 
handed over to him the Kingdom. 


135 


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joiner aub 129t!Sbom i@otf) i^eebeb 

FATHER had three sons, and prom- 
ised his kingdom to the one who 
first brought a certain treasure from 
a distant land. In the harbor lay 
three steamships, the one with coal, 
but no compass; the second with a 
compass, but without coal, and the third had neither. 
The first two sons started out immediately; the third 
labored hard for a year to earn money sufficient 
to buy sufficient coal and a compass. Then he 
started out, accomplished the task in a week, and 
received the kingdom. 

What had become of the other two ships? The 
one with coal but no compass had gone fast, at first, 
but had landed on a rock, and was shipwrecked. 
The one with a compass, but without coal, remained 
safe, but got nowhere, drifting about the tides still 
near the home port. Only he who had both coal 
and compass succeeded, with safety. A year’s prep- 
aration was a small price to pay for the kingdom. 



136 



PI gi sa ^ sj! ^ Q3 ^ n p Qi ^ n Si 


S^ohi to ^etouabt 

HE cold North Wind and the warm 
South Wind were quarreling as to 
which of them was the mightiest. 
They decided to settle it by a trial 
as to which of them could quickest 
make a man lose his coat. The 
North Wind caught him unexpectedly, and at first 
almost tore off his coat; but the man then wrapped 
it tighter than ever so that the North Wind had to 
give it up. The South Wind, on the contrary, 
brought up so much heat that in sheer self-defense 
the man pulled off his coat in a hurry. Where the 
roughness of the terrible North Wind had failed, 
the gentle persuasion of the South Wind succeeded. 

If you want to persuade a man to do something, 
discover his desires, needs, and ideals; then, as on 
an organ, pull out the right stops, and the music 
will peal forth. The secret lies in making a man 
want it, for his own advantage. The more a thing 
is for his own advantage, the less you must press 
him, or he will think that you have an “axe to grind,” 
some interest to subserve. You will have to suit the 
bait to the fish. One thing is certain; you cannot 
catch flies with vinegar; one catches them by paper 
dipped in molasses. 



137 



Btbtne (^utbance 


RANGERS purest glory Is Joan of Arc, 
a simple country girl, who was spin- 
ning flax when she heard unseen 
Voices urging her to save France 
from the horrors of the Hundred 
Years’ War by driving out the 
English. The then King of France was so dis- 
couraged that he spent his time carousing in a shel- 
tered castle. As there seemed no other person 
willing to save the fatherland, Joan finally obeyed 
the Voices, went to the King and besought him to 
entrust to her an army. The King, at first, incred- 
ulous, finally did so. The soldiers, believing she 
had been sent by heaven, obeyed her; and by unflinch- 
ing bravery, she relieved the siege of Orleans, and 
took the King Charles VII to Rheims, where he was 
formally crowned in the Cathedral, in 1429. 

Having accomplished her mission, Joan of Arc 
wanted to return home; but the selfish King would 
not let her go. Then one of the jealous nobles who 
envied her position of influence sold her treacher- 
ously to the English, who, at Rouen, burned her at 
the stake. So gentle was she, that they realized they 
had committed a crime. Soon they were entirely 
driven out from France, for ever. 



138 


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^ntrabuction 


The author of The Picture was probably the 
Kebes who was a disciple of Sokrates, and one of the 
few witnesses of the latter’s last words and moments, 
and who wrote three dialogues, of which the present 
one is the sole survivor, the Phrynichos and the 
Hebdome being lost. This our Picture seems 
genuine enough, the spirit being Sokratic, and the 
diction Boeotian. But even the casual reader will 
notice that the last discussion, on Good and Evil, 
is unnecessary, different, and probably Stoical. The 
use of the term Scientific Recognition may suggest 
another interpolation. Other similar conclusions 
may be reached by students who get the text from 
B. G. Teubner in Leipzig, or who study the German 
translation in Langenscheidt’s Bibliothek. 

But we are here interested only in the moral value 
of the work as we find it — the Pilgrim’s Progress of 
Humanity, ignoring all limitations of sect, creed, age 
and race. Hence it is for all time that it will teach 
that neither sense-gratification, nor wealth, power, 
or honor can yield true contentment or happiness, 
which can come only from True Culture — not neces- 
sarily valuable scientific training, but rather Virtue 
and Righteousness — but if possible, all. 


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ContentiS 

The Gate of Life, and its Delusions, 
The Road Upwards to Happiness, 
Those Who Fail, and Why, 

The Value of Science, 

What is Good and Evil, 


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tCfje (gate of ILife anb itt Belusiong 

APPENING one day to be medita- 
tively visiting a Temple of Saturn, 
we reverently contemplated its 
votive inscriptions. Prominently 
affixed to the front of the Temple, 
loomed up large a strange pictorial 
Tablet, containing certain peculiar words, whose 
significance we were not able to fathom. 

It seemed to represent, not some city or military 
camp, but a triple ring, formed by three concentric 
walled enclosures. 

Within the outer circular wall might be seen a 
crowd of women; while outside, around the outer 
Gate, surged a large mob, to whose entering streams 
a certain old man seemed, by his gestures, to be 
uttering some command. 

tlTlje iHafeer of tfie Tahiti 

We stood a long while, questioning with each 
other about the symbology of the Picture. Then 
an Old Man who chanced to pass by stopped, and 
addressed us, in the following words : 



I 



‘O Strangers! Not exceptional is this your ex- 
perience of uncertainty about this Picture: for it is 
a puzzle even to many of the local inhabitants. This 
votive symbol does not originate from this locality. 
A Stranger, full of understanding, and impressive 
with wisdom, arrived here long since, following 
with zeal the rule of life of Pythagoras or Par- 
menides in word and deed. It was he who dedi- 
cated to Saturn both Temple and Picture.’ 

‘So you yourself saw and knew this Man, did 
you?’ asked I. 

‘Yes, indeed! And what is more, I admired 
him for a long time during my youth.’ 

‘It was his way to indulge in many serious con- 
versations. Many is the time that I have heard 
him expound this symbolic Picture!’ 

tlTfje of tfje ^pfimx 

‘By Jupiter!’ cried I, ‘unless you happen to have 
a most pressing engagement elsewhere, do please 
explain the Picture to us also! I assure you that 
we are most anxious to understand the meaning of 
this symbol !’ 

‘With pleasure. Strangers !’ said he. ‘But first you 
must hear that such an explanation is not without 
its very real dangers.’ 


2 



‘How so?’ cried we all. 

‘Should you,’ said he, ‘understand and assimilate 
what I should say, you shall become wise and happy; 
but if not, you will live badly, having become foolish, 
unfortunate, bitter, and ignorant. 

‘For the explanation is not unlike the Sphinx’s 
Riddle, that he propounded to all men. Whoever 
solved it was saved; but destruction by the Sphinx 
overtook those who could not. And this was the 
Sphinx’s question: Within our life. What is good? 
What is an evil? What is neither? 

‘If anyone does not solve this, the Sphinx destroys 
him; not all at once, as in ancient times, but gradu- 
ally, in his whole life, he perishes away, just like 
victims tortured to death. 

‘But if he understands, he is saved, and attains 
felicity. 

‘Attention, therefore! and make sure you under- 
stand!’ 

Cjje <§ate of Hilt, ttie #ool)i anb tfte Wiap 

‘Now, by Hercules! What fires hast thou lit in 
us, if what thou saidst is true!’ 

‘Why, surely!’ said he. 

‘Start in to explain immediately, then! For we 
shall attend to some purpose, especially in view of 
the nature of the retribution.’ 


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‘Well,* said the Old Man, pointing with a wand, 
‘do you see that outer circular wall?’ 

‘Yes, indeed!’ 

‘First, you must know that the name of this whole 
place is the Life. 

This innumerable multitude surging in front of 
the Gate, are they who are about to enter into Life. 

‘The Old Man who holds in one hand a scroll, 
and with the other is pointing out something is the 
Good Genius. 

‘To those who are entering is he setting forth 
what they should do when they shall have entered; 
and he is pointing out to them which Way they shall 
have to walk in if they propose to be saved in the 
Life.’ 


Habp 3Selus(ion, anb fjer ttoo Cupjs 

‘Which way does he command them to go? 
And why?’ said I. 

‘You see,’ said he, ‘by the side of the Gate by 
which the Multitude are to enter, a throne, on which 
is seated a Woman dressed stylishly— indeed, over- 
dressed, who holds in her hands as it were some 
sort of cups — do you see that?’ 

‘Indeed I do,’ responded I ; ‘but who is she ?’ 

‘Delusion is her name,’ answered he, ‘for the 
reason that she deludes and misleads every human 
being.* 


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‘But what IS her office?’ 

‘She quenches the thirst of every soul that proceeds 
into Life, by making it drink of her very own 
essence.’ 

‘And what might her drink be, I wonder?’ 

‘Error and Ignorance’ said he. 

‘Why so?’ 

‘Because they would not enter into the Life, unless 
they were under that influence.’ 

‘I wonder whether this Delusion is drunk by all, 
or only by some ?’ 

‘All drink,’ said he; ‘although there are degrees, 
some drinking more, others less. 

Wf)t Courtefifang tDfjo tlTrabe on tfje Jfateful ©rink 

Then, do you not see 
within the Gate a crowd of Women wearing the 
motley garb of Courtesans?’ 

‘Indeed do I see them!’ 

‘Well, their names are False Opinion, Desires, 
and Pleasures. Upon the entering souls fall these, 
each of them embracing and leading away a soul.* 

‘And whither? would I like to know!’ 

‘Some to be saved, indeed; but others, alas I to be 
destroyed by Delusion.’ 

‘O Good Genius of ours, how fateful is that 
Drink 1* 


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‘Surely, for each of those Courtesans promises to 
the soul that she has embraced that she will lead it 
to the best things and to a life happy and profitable ; 
and she succeeds for because of that Drink the souls 
themselves are not able to discover which is the ver- 
itable road in the Life but wander around as you see 
— for these who have already entered are cruising 
around, as if by chance. 

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‘I see them indeed,’ said 1. 

‘But tell me, who can be that Woman, who seems 
to be both wild and blind, standing on a globular- 
shaped stone?’ 

‘Her name,’ answered he, ‘is Luck. Not only 
blind and wild is she, but deaf.’ 

‘And what might her business be?’ 

‘She circulates everywhere,’ said he. From some 
she takes their substance, and freely gives it away to 
others. Then, again, she suddenly withdraws what 
she has given, and gives it to others without any plan 
or steadfastness. So you see that her symbol fits 
her perfectly.’ 

‘Which symbol,’ asked I. 

‘Why, the Globular Stone on which she stands.’ 

‘And what does that betoken, I wonder?’ 

‘That Globular Stone signifies that no gift of hers 


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is safe or lasting; for whosoever reposes any con- 
fidence in her, is sure to suffer great and right 
grievous misfortune.’ 

ZHnreflectmg, OTfjo or (^riebe at Huch 

But what is the wish and the name of that great 
Multitude standing around her?’ 

‘Oh! They are known as the Unreflecting: they 
who desire whatever Luck might throw them.’ 

‘But then, how is it that they do not behave in 
the same manner? For some seem to rejoice, while 
others are agonizing, with hands outstretched?’ 

‘Well, those who seem to rejoice and laugh are 
they who have received somewhat from her — and 
you may be sure that they call her Fortune 1 On 
the contrary, those who seem to weep and stretch 
out their hands are they from whom she has taken 
back what she had given — they call her Mis- 
fortune I’ 

‘And what sort of things does she deal in, that 
they who receive them laugh, while they who lose 
them, weep?’ 

‘Why, what to the great Multitudes seems Good 
— of course Wealth; then Glory, Good Birth, 
Children, Power, Palaces, and the like.’ 

‘But such things, are they not really good?’ 

‘That question, let us postpone!’ 

‘Willingly,’ said I. 


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VLfit Jfour C(mrte£^an£(, tlTttm mto JBrasonst 

‘Now, as you enter within the Gate, do you sec 
the second circular enclosure, and without it, certain 
Women clad like courtesans?’ 

‘Clearly !’ 

‘Well, their names are Incontinence, Indulgence, 
Insatiableness, and Flattery.’ 

‘And why do they stand there?’ 

‘They are watching for those why may have re- 
ceived anything from the Luck-Goddess.’ 

‘And then, what happens?’ 

‘The Courtesans spring on those souls, embrace 
them, flatter them, and coax them not to go away, 
but to stay for a life of comfort, without effort or 
misadventure. Should, however, any soul be by 
them persuaded to enter into Enjoyment, this seems 
a pleasant pastime until he is satiated, but no longer. 
For whenever he sobers up, he notices that he has 
not eaten, but that he has, by her, been devoured, 
and maltreated. Wherefore, when he has con- 
sumed all the goods he received from Fortune, he i^ 
forced to slave to those Women, to suffer all things, 
to be dishonored, and on their account to do many 
pitiable deeds — such as to steal, to profane Temples, 
to perjure himself, to betray, to plunder. 

However, whenever he has degraded himself to 
the point of utter destitution, then is he handed over 
to Punishment 


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‘But who is she?’ 

‘Do you not see behind them,’ said he, ‘something 
that looks like a small door, and a narrow, dank 
place?’ 

‘Yes, indeed!’ 

‘And you notice therein Women — shameful, be- 
draggled, and ragged?’ 

‘Why yes!’ 

‘Well, among them, the one who holds the whip 
is called Punishment; while the one who holds her 
head bent over to her knees is Sorrow; and the one 
who is pulling her own hair, is Grief.’ 

‘But what about that Thing standing by them, — 
so repulsive, thin, and naked; and near to it that 
other similarly shameful female, — who is she?’ 

‘Ah,’ said he, ‘that is Lamentation, and his sister 
is Despair. To these therefore is the soul handed 
over, and is punished by association with them. 
Hence, however, he is cast into another dwelling, 
into Unhappiness, where he ekes out his existence in 
every misery unless, indeed, to him unexpectedly. 
Repentance, having planned it, should meet him. 

jRepentance, anb fjer (I^pmion 

‘Well, what happens, should Repentance chance to 
meet him?’ 

‘She releases him from his evils, and associates 


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with him another Opinion-and-Desire, who will lead 
him to genuine Culture — though indeed he might 
just as well be misled even then to Sham-Culture.’ 

‘Well, what happens then?’ 

In the case,’ said he, ‘that he is taken in charge 
by this Right-Opinion who will lead him to genuine 
Culture, he is, on being purified, by Her saved, so 
that his life grows blissful and happy; — otherwise, 
again he wanders, to be deceived by Sham-Culture. 

^f)am=Culture 

‘By Herkules! what other great danger is here! 
Pray speak to me more definitely of Sham-Culture. 

‘Well, do you see standing by the Gate of the 
inner enclosure a Woman seeming neat and well- 
groomed? Well, she is, by the unreflecting Majority 
called Culture, — but that is an error, for she is no 
more than a Sham. Nevertheless, those who are 
being saved must, in order to reach genuine Culture, 
first pass here.’ 

‘So there is no other way?’ 

‘No, there is not.’ 

tBbe ^cientiitg tofto ^roftgs; ^(jam^Culture 

‘And can you tell me who are those men, per- 
ambulating within the second enclosure ?’ 


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‘Those,’ said he, ‘are the deluded Votaries of 
Sham-Culture — honestly, they labor under the im- 
pression that they are, right now, associating with 
genuine CultureJ’ 

‘And what might they be called?’ 

‘Some,’ answered he, ‘are Poets; some, so-called 
Orators. Some are Reasoners; others are Musi- 
cians, Mathematicians, Geometricians, Astronomers, 
Critics, Aristippian Pleasure seekers, or Aristotelian 
Peripatetic scientists !’ 

iHete detente ^t ^abe 

‘But those Women who seem to circulate among 
them — indeed, they resemble the first, among whom 
was Pleasure, and her companions — who are they?’ 

‘They are the very same,’ said he. 

‘But how did they get in?’ 

‘By altering their looks ; for here they are needy- 
looking, and not as before.’ 

‘And have those False-Opinions remained un- 
changed?’ asked I. 

‘That potion which they received from Delusion 
remains active in them ; so also Ignorance, Senseless- 
ness, Prejudice and other Badness. None of this 
fades out from them till they leave Sham-Culture, 
enter on the right road, and drink the purifying 
medicaments. Through this purification having 




sloughed off all their evils such as Prejudice and 
Ignorance, then, and not before, shall they be saved. 

‘Should they, however, elect to remain with 
Sham-Culture, they shall never be released; nor shall 
they be released from a single evil merely because of 
any Science.* 


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HAT then is the Road that leads to 
genuine Culture’ asked I. 

“Do you see up there,’ said he, 
a place where no one dwells, and 
which seems to be desert?’ 
a do.’ 

‘Do you not see a small door, a path not much fre- 
quented, — only a few are ascending on it, for it is 
almost impassable, rough and rocky?’ 

‘Yes indeed,’ said I. 

‘And do you not see something like a steep hill, 
whose only access is a narrow ascent between preci- 
pices? 

That then is the Road to Culture.’ 

‘And difficult enough it seems!’ 

‘But it leads up Culture’s Rock, which is large, 
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‘Now do you not further see, standing on the 
Rock, two healthy and well-formed Women who 
stretch out their hands invitingly?’ 

‘Yes; but who are they?’ 

‘Self-Control and Endurance — two sisters.’ 

‘But why are they extending their arms so invit- 
ingly?’ 

‘They are exhorting the Pilgrims who reach that 
place not to despair, but to be of good courage, 
inasmuch as they will reach a fair road if only they 
will be brave for but a little while longer.’ 

‘Encouragement is good; but what is the use of 
it? as I see, way up on the Road, a gap, where 
there is no road.’ 

‘Those Women will themselves descend from the 
Cliff, draw the Pilgrims up to their present position. 
Then only will the Women bid the Pilgrims rest; 
and after a little while will give them Strength and 
Courage, and promise to introduce them into the 
presence of genuine Culture. 

‘Then the Women point out to the refreshed 
Pilgrims the further road which, there, is fair, level, 
passable, and free from all evils, as you see.’ 
‘Clearly, by Jupiter!’ ‘Do you not behold, in front 
of that grove, a place which seems to be fair, grassy, 
and illuminated by a white light?’ 

‘Yes, indeed!’ 


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Culture, anb ber ttuo ©augfjter^ 

‘Now do you perceive in the midst of the meadow 
another Enclosure, with its gate?’ 

‘It is so, — but what is the name of that place?’ 

‘It is the Dwelling of the Blessed,’ said he. ‘Here 
abide all the Virtues, and Happiness.’ 

‘Is it possible? How beautiful must that Place 
be I’ 

‘Now, do you see by the Gate, a Woman, fair 
and composed, of middle, or rather of advanced 
age, clad in a simple, unadorned robe? She stands, 
not on a globe, but on a solidly founded cube. With 
her are standing two other but younger Women 
who seem to be her daughters.’ 

‘So it looks.’ 

‘Well, the Woman who is standing in the centre 
is Culture; the others are Truth and Conviction.’ 

‘But why does Culture stand on a Cube?’ 

‘As a sign that, for approaching Pilgrims, the 
Road to her is certain and safe — as, indeed, is 
also the case with her Gifts.’ 

‘And what might these her gifts be?’ 

‘Courage and Fearlessness!’ 

‘But what do they consist of?’ asked I. 

‘Courage and Fearlessness consist in the realiza- 
tion that naught that ever could happen to us could 
prove to be a misfortune* 


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‘By HerkulesI’ said I, ‘what fine gifts! But why 
does she thus stand outside of the Circle?’ 

‘In order to heal the new arrivals,’ said he. ‘She 
furnishes them the cleansing medicament ; and when- 
ever they have been purified, she introduces them 
unto the Virtues.’' 

‘But how does this happen? I do not understand 
that.’ 

‘But you will,’ said he. ‘It is as if an ambitious 
man should, on becoming sick, go to a physician, 
who first removes the cause of the sickness, thereby 
paving the way through convalescence to health. 
Should the sick man, however, not carry out the 
prescription, it is no more than fair that he should 
be abandoned to the ravages of the disease.’ 

‘Oh, I understand that,’ said I. 

‘Just so acts Culture,’ resumed our Guide. ‘When- 
ever any Pilgrim reaches her, she heals him and 
doses him with her own power, so as first to purify 
him from all the evils which lodged in him— Igno- 
rance and Error, with which Delusion had infected 
the Pilgrim ; Arrogance, Lust, Intemperance, Anger, 
Love-of-Money, and all the rest of those Evils with 
which the Pilgrim was affected in the first En- 
closure.’ 


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‘Now when the Pilgrim is cleansed, whither does 
she send him?’ 

‘In there unto Scientific-Recognition, and unto the 
other Virtues.’ 

‘And which are these?’ 

Said he : ‘Do you not see within the Gate a choir 
of Women, who seem to be attractive, neat, with 
simple, unadorned robes; see how sweet they look 
in their simple garb, and not overdressed as the 
others were?’ 

‘I see,’ said I. ‘But what are their names?’ 

‘The first is Scientific-Recognition; the others are 
sisters of hers; Fortitude, Righteousness, Fairness, 
Wisdom, Poise, Freedom, Temperance, and Gentle- 
ness.’ 

‘O you kindly Guide of ours, what great things 
may we hope for!’ 

‘Surely! But only on condition that you under- 
stand what you see, and take good heed to that 
which you have heard of me.’ 

‘But we most surely do!’ cried we all as if with 
one voice. 

‘Then shall you also be saved!’ cried he. 

‘Now, when they have received the Pilgrim, 
whither do they lead him?’ 

‘To their mother Happiness, said he. 


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‘But who and where is she?’ 

‘Following the Road up yon Mountain which 
forms the heart of the Enclosures, you come to the 
Temple-porch by which sits on a high throne a 
glorious Woman, decked nobly, but artlessly, and 
crowned with a splendid wreath of flowers. Well, 
she is Happiness.’ 

Crotoning of tfje Victor ober the beflitial Vitti 

‘Now, whenever any one reaches hither, what does 
she do?’ 

‘Happiness, with all the other Virtues, crown him 
as Victor in the greatest struggles, — namely, against 
the most terrible Beasts, who before, enslaved, tor- 
mented, and devoured him. All these now has he 
overcome and repelled for himself, holding himself 
well in hand, so that they, to whom he formerly 
slaved, now must serve him.’ 

‘I am anxious to know the identity of the wild 
Beasts you mentioned!’ 

‘Ignorance,’ said he, ‘and Error. Or don’t you 
consider them wild beasts?’ 

‘And pretty savage, too 1’ agreed I. 

‘Then Sorrow, Despair, Love-of-Money, Intem- 
perance and all other Badness. All these he now 
rules, instead of, as before, being ruled by them.’ 


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*0 glorious deeds,’ cried I, ‘and splendid victory! 
But what Is the virtue of the Victor’s crown?’ 

‘It beatifies with Felicity unspeakable. He who 
with this Virtue is crowned, becomes very happy 
reposing his hopes of getting Happiness and of re- 
taining it not on others, but on himself.’ 


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But after the Pilgrim is crowned, 
what does he do, and whither does 
> proceed?’ 

^ rN — ‘The Virtues who had welcomed 
him lead him to that place whence 
he came out, and point out to him how badly fare 
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ing ship-wreck of their lives, erring and wandering, 
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‘Then,’ said I: ‘You seem to speak rightly. But 
I am not yet quite clear on this point: namely, Why 
to the Pilgrim the Virtues point out that Place from 
which he came originally.’ 

Said our Guide: ‘None of these things could the 
Pilgrim accurately understand or realize, himself 
being in doubt because of the Ignorance and Error 
which he had imbibed, so that he considered Good 
That-which-was-not-Good, and Evil That-which-was- 
not-Evil. Wherefore, like those who remained 
there, the Pilgrim eked out a miserable existence. 

‘Now, however, since he has attained to Scientific- 
Recognition of what really is advantageous, he lives 
pleasantly, realizing how badly off those others are.’ 

l^fctor Jfloun'sffjesf among ^agsionsf 

‘Well, now that he contemplates all these things, 
what will he do, and whither will he wend his way?’ 

‘Withersoever he may fancy; for now he is as 
safe anywhere as if in a Korykian Cave; fairly and 
safely will he dwell, whithersoever he may arrive. 
For just as the sick welcome the physician, so will 
all receive him with pleasure and gratitude.’ 

‘And he fears no more that he shall suffer some- 
thing from those Women, who, you say, are really 
wild Beasts?” 


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‘No indeed! No more can he be troubled by 
Grief or Sorrow, by Incontinence or Love-of-Money, 
by Need or any other evil — for now he lords it over 
all those by whom he formerly was grieved. 

‘Just like a serpent-charmer, whose snakes, though 
they do to death all others but him, yet him they 
do not injure, because of an antidote against them 
which he possesses; — ^just like this immune snake- 
charmer, is the crowned Pilgrim no more grieved 
by any of them, being immune because of the anti- 
dote which he possesses.’ 

Jfehi are Cfio^en, ^ince iHanp are ii^ejecteb 

‘To me it seems that you have spoken well. But 
tell me further this: Who are they who seem to 
be descending from the Mountain? For while some 
of them are crowned and are making gestures of 
joy, others are uncrowned, grieved and distressed; 
they seem to be so weary in head and limb as to 
be in real need of that their support by certain 
Women !’ 

‘The crowned are those who were saved by 
Culture, and they are rejoicing at having reached 
her. Irhe uncrowned, however, are those who were 
by Culture rejected, and are returning to an exist- 
ence miserable and wretched; or are such as, while 
ascending to Endurance, became timorous, and 


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turned back, wandering around without a path.’ 

And who are the Women supporting them?’ 

Griefs, Sorrows, Faint-heartedness, Obscure-Con- 
tempt, and Ignorances.’ 

tE:f)e 3Bos i^turni to jjisf \Tomrt 

‘Why I thought you said that all the Evils accom- 
panied them?’ 

And they all do, by Jupiter! For whenever they 
return into the first Enclosure unto Sensuality and 
Incontinence, they do not accuse themselves — far 
from it I Straightway they speak ill of Culture, and 
of those who go to her; saying that they are 
wretched, miserable, and unhappy; and that on leav- 
ing their accustomed manner of life they live badly, 
enjoying no good thing — that is, no thing that is 
accounted good among themselves.’ 

‘And what goods may they be referring to ?’ 

‘Why, to Debauchery and Incontinence,’ to speak 
plainly, ‘for their highest ideal is to feed like cattle.* 

(2^tnton anb llmihilebse 

‘And what about those other Women who descend 
thence cheerful in mien, and all wreathed in smiles?’ 

‘They are Opinions; and whenever they have 
successfully conducted any Pilgrim to Culture, and 
introduced him to the Virtues, they return to lead 


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up others, to whom they announce the beatification 
of those they had led up before.’ 

‘But why do not they themselves enter in among 
the Virtues, and stay?’ 

‘Because it is not fitting for mere Opinions to 
enter in unto Scientific Recognition; their utmost 
capacity is to introduce a Pilgrim unto Culture. 
All that they then can do is to return and bring up 
others, — just as ships, when unloaded, return to 
be loaded again.’ 


Courage I 

‘To me it seems that you have interpreted these 
things very well; but there is one thing which you 
have not yet made plain to us — namely. What the 
Good Genius teaches those who are entering into 
Life.’ 

^To take heart, and he courageous* says he. 
‘Wherefore, do ye also take heart, for I shall 
interpret all things, and omit nothing.’ 

‘AVell spoken!’ cried I. 

Then the Old Man, again stretching forth his 
hand, said: ‘Look at that Woman who seems to be 
blind, standing on a stone globe, whose name, as 
I told you before, is Luck.’ 

‘Well, we see.’ 


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JBisitniit Hucfe! 

‘The Genius warns souls not to trust Her; 
nothing received from her should be considered 
reliable or safe: nor consider them his own, inas- 
much as nothing hinders her from taking them 
back, and again giving them away to somebody else 
— why, that is a common occurrence. Wherefore, 
he admonishes, no man should let himself be moved 
by her gifts — neither to joy on receiving them, nor 
to sorrow on losing them; neither to praise, nor to 
blame them. For nothing done by her proceeds 
from Reflexion; only by chance, and just as things 
come, as I told you before. 

‘Wherefore the Good Genius admonishes men to 
take no notice of anything she does, and not to be- 
come like wicked bankers, who rejoice whenever 
they receive money from some man, and consider 
it their own; but, as soon as they receive notice of 
withdrawal, they become offended, and consider 
themselves grievously wronged, not remembering 
that they received the deposits on this very condi- 
tion, that the depositor may withdraw it without 
difficulty. 

‘The Good Genius advises a similar attitude 
towards the gifts of the Goddess of Luck; and to 
remember that it is no more than her nature to 
take back what she gave, and again soon to give 


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manifold other gifts, then again to withdraw not 
only this that she gave, but also whatever a man 
may have possessed before. Wherefore, he admon- 
ishes, accept whatever she may give; and as soon 
as you have possession of it, with it immediately 
depart to the blessings reliable and enduring.’ 

Siesft <^oob STubgment 

‘But what may these be?’ asked I. 

‘That which is received from Culture.’ 

‘And what may it be?’ 

‘The veritable Scientific Recognition of what is 
advantageous and is a safe, reliable, enduring gift,’ 
said he. ‘To flee to her incontinently is his moni- 
tion; and whenever the Pilgrim arrives to those 
Women who, as I said before, are called Incon- 
tinence and Sensuality, he is not to trust them but to 
depart from them, and proceed to Sham-Culture. 
Here he should remain some little time, collecting 
from her Sham-Accomplishments whatever may be 
suitable for a traveling-ration to support him until 
he reach Genuine Culture. 

‘Whosoever disobeys this monition, or even only 
misunderstands it, perishes away miserably.’ 


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OW^ Strangers, this is the meaning 
of the Picture. Do not hesitate to 
ask any additional questions about 
it; I shall be pleased to answer.’ 

‘Well, then I will ask you what 
sort of accomplishments the Good 
Genius advises the Pilgrim to take from Sham-Cul- 
ture?’ 

‘Whatever a man may think might be of use to 
him.’ 

‘And what is your advice in the matter?’ 

‘The knowledge of languages, first; and then, 
sufficient of other Sciences to act, in the words of 
Plato, as a check-rein from eccentricities — misunder- 
stand me not: they are not necessary, but advanta- 
geous to proceed more efficiently — but. of course, 
they are not helpful morally.’ 

‘So then you declare formally that these Accom- 
plishments do not aid moralization?’ 

‘By no means; for although a man must improve 
without them, still they have their place. For 



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although we may catch the meaning by means of 
an interpreter, yet might It not be useless to under- 
stand the words themselves, if we care at all for 
accuracy. Yet nothing hinders our becoming better 
without those accomplishments. 

Science Mo l^irtue 

‘Well, then, according to what you say, the scien- 
tists have no advantage over other men in becoming 
holier?’ 

‘What advantage could they have, inasmuch as 
they are Involved in the same delusion about the 
nature of Goods, just as the Unscientific, and are 
yet dominated by their vices? For nothing hinders 
a man from knowing languages, and being an expert 
in every scientific field, and still being intoxicated 
and incontinent, fond of money, unjust, traitorous, 
and even a fool.’ 

‘Yes Indeed ! — one can see many such !’ 

‘What advantage, then, could these, merely 
because of their scientific accomplishments, have in 
the matter of moralization?’ 

^nreolf^eb llnotDlebge tsi Sterile 

‘Certainly not, according to what you say. But 
why then do they remain within the Second En- 
closure, as if they still wished to approach unto 
Genuine-Culture ?’ 


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‘And of what use to them is that proximity? 
For how often do you see later Pilgrims arriving 
from the First Enclosure with its Incontinence and 
other evils, and before them entering in unto Genu- 
ine-Culture in the Third Enclosure, leaving those 
Scientists behind I Hence, what advantages have 
they? Are they not rather at the disadvantage of 
being less impressionable, and more incorrigible?’ 

‘How so?’ asked 1. 

‘Why, because what is known by those who are in 
the Second Enclosure is never realized. As long 
as they hold to the speculative side of Opinion, they 
cannot possibly take any practical steps towards 
Genuine-Culture. Do you not see that, just as much 
as the more practical Pilgrim, they have the oppor- 
tunity of making use of the Opinions who lead out 
from the First Enclosure. But are not Opinions 
useless without a meeting with Repentance, and 
without the resulting conviction that the Culture 
which they do possess is a sham, and a trap? Being 
satisfied with their abode, they never progress to 
Salvation. 

‘And you also, O Strangers, you must practice 
what I said until you have attained unto its sig- 
nificance. Often, indeed, will you have to study 
afresh my instructions, nor relinquish the sacred 
Quest, relegating all other matters to secondary 
rank. If not, all you hear will remain useless.’ 





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NDEED we shall do so. But explain 
us this : how that which men receive 
from Luck — namely life, health, 
wealth, honor, children, victory, 
and more such, are not goods; and 
again, how the absence thereof is 
not an evil? For what you have said seems to us to 
lack common-sense and reliability.’ 

‘Very well, come on! Give me your views about 
what I shall ask you.’ 

‘I shall most certainly do so,’ said I. 

‘Well, if a man lives badly, is life to him a good?’ 

‘It would seem not,’ said I. ‘Rather, an evil.’ 

‘How then could life be a good, if, to him, it is 
an evil?’ 

‘Well, I should say it was an evil to those who 
live badly, and a good to those who live well’ 

‘So then life might be both an evil and a good?’ 
‘So I said.’ 



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l^eal Cbil ii tfje €btt Hife 

Come, do not express opinions so unlikely, for 
how could aught be at the same time good and 
evil? Did you ever hear of anything simultane- 
ously useful and harmful, desired and scorned?’ 

‘That, really, is unlikely; but if living badly is an 
evil for the living man, why, for such a man is not 
life itself not an evil?’ 

Yes; but life and living badly are not identical; — 
or do you think so?’ 

Our Guide answered, ‘Neither do I. The evil 
lies in living badly, not in life itself. For were it 
an evil it would be evil even to such as live right- 
eously, in the degree that they are alive, if this was 
an absolute evil.’ 

‘I agree with you.’ 

more 3fmportant than Hife 

As, therefore, life belongs to both those who 
live badly, and to those who live rightly, might it 
not then be possible that life is neither a Good 
nor an Evil; just as cutting and burning in them- 
selves are neither harmful nor sanatory for the sick a 
—it all depends on the time and manner the patient 
is cut or burned. Is it not thus also with life ?’ 

‘Yes, indeed, so it is.’ 


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Wow consider the matter thus: What would you 
prefer, to live shamefully, or to die honorably, like 
a man?’ 

‘I had rather die honorably.’ 

‘So then even dying can be no evil, as it is often 
more desirable than living?’ 

‘So it is.’ 

‘Should we not also think likewise of health and 
sickness? For there are circumstances when health 
is unbearable.’ 

‘You speak the truth,’ said I. 

?[SEealtl) ts; not a ^oob 

‘Good! Let us consider wealth, in the same man- 
ner. Apparently, as is often seen, there are persons 
who possess wealth who live badly and shamefully.’ 

‘By Jupiter, there are many such I So then wealth 
does not help them to a righteous life?’ 

‘Evidently not, for they themselves are evil. 
Culture, not wealth, gives virtue.^ 

‘Very probably so — at least, according to your 
argument,’ grudgingly assented I. 

‘Surely!’ asseverated he. ‘How could Wealth be 
an absolute good since it does not always make for 
the improvement of its possessors?* 

‘Clearly not’ 


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‘Acknowledge then that Wealth is not at all advis- 
able for such as do not know how to use it!’ 

‘I must say I think sol’ 

‘How then should that whose possession is often 
unbearable be considered an absolute good?’ 

‘By no means!’ 

‘Will not then a man live well as far as he knows 
how to employ wealth well and understandingly — 
and if not badly?’ 

‘What you say seems to be entirely true.’ 


Hn ititiU ^0 tavt^ly <2^b|ect <§oob or Siab 

‘Well, it seems to me that this is the cause of 
the restlessness and of the harm of men: they err 
in honoring Things as goods, or scorning Things 
as evils; to lay values on Things, and to suppose 
that through Things one can improve, or for 
the sake of Things commit any, even godless actions. 
This however is the result of ignorance of what 
is the real Good, they ignore that no real goods 
result from evil means. Hence many are those 
who have amassed Wealth through evil and shame- 
ful deeds — such as treason, robbery, murder, eaves- 
dropping, theft, and other crimes.’ 

‘So it is.’ 


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Wis^bom ti)t (0nlp ^oob. 

‘If then out of evil means can arise no good end, 
as is evident; and if out of evil deeds can arise 
wealth, then can Wealth never be an absolutely good 
end.’ 

‘An evident consequence I’ 

‘But then, none can attain unto Righteousness 
through any evil action ; as little as one can attain In- 
justice or Foolishness through good deeds. Besides, 
both opposites cannot well coexist in one and the 
same thing. Wealth, Fame, Victory and other such 
external goods do not exclude badness. Conse- 
quently these things are neither goods nor even 
evils; they are no more than external applications 
of the internal principle Wisdom alone is a Good, 
while Foolishness is the only Evil.* 

‘It seems to me that you have proved your point.’ 


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HEN Hercules was advancing from 
boyhood to manhood, a period dur- 
ing which the young, becoming 
their own masters, begin to give an 
intimation whether they will enter 
on life by the path of Virtue or of 
Vice, he went forth into a solitary place, and sat 
down, perplexed as to which of these two paths he 
should pursue. Two female figures, of lofty stature, 
seemed to advance toward him. 

The one was of an engaging and graceful mien, 
gifted by nature with elegance of form, modesty of 
look, and sobriety of demeanor, clad in a white robe. 

The other was stout and flabby; but she had so 
artistically improved her complexion as to seem 
fairer and rosier than she really was. Her gestures 
were such as to make her seem taller than her natural 
height. She knew how to employ her eyes in 
affected glances. Her robe was such as to reveal, 
rather than to hide her beauty; and when she thought 
no one else was observing her, she would frequently 
look at her own figure, glancing back at her own 
shadow. 



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As these two approached nearer to Hercules, the 
first continued her gracefully even gait. The latter, 
however, was so eager to anticipate the former, that 
she actually ran up to Hercules, and said, 

“Hercules, I see that you are hesitating by what 
path you shall enter into life. If you will make a 
friend of me, I will conduct you by the most delight- 
ful and easy road, and you shall taste every species 
of pleasure, leading a life free from every sort of 
trouble. 

“You will not have to take thought for any war or 
affair of state; you will be able to spend your time 
in the consideration of whatever food or delicacy 
may best gratify your taste; of music and art, of 
perfume and softness; of association with objects of 
affection, of pleasant sleep, and of how to secure all 
these enjoyments with the least expenditure of effort. 

“Do not hesitate because of an apprehension of 
a want of means to secure such delights. You shall 
never be urged to toil or suffering, physical or 
mental, to encompass them. What others have to 
labor to acquire, you will feel free to get easily, nor 
will you have to abstain from anything desirable, 
for my followers are allowed to help themselves to 
anything they want from any source whatever.” 

On hearing this address, Hercules inquired 
after the woman’s name. “Happiness is what I 
am called by my friends; but my enemies, to dis- 
parage me, call me Vice.” 

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In the meanwhile, the other woman had arrived, 
and said, “Hercules, I also have come to address 
you, because I know your parents, and have observed 
your disposition as it revealed itself during the 
training of your childhood; both of which have 
raised hopes for you within my mind. If now you 
will direct your steps along the path that leads to 
my dwelling up yonder, we will both be benefited: 
you will become an expert performer of what is 
honorable and noble, while I will gain greater fame 
through your illustrious deeds. 

“However, I will not deceive you with any prom- 
ises of pleasure; I will set before you things as they 
really are, and as they have been appointed by the 
gods: they grant to mankind nothing that is worth 
while or preeminent without corresponding care and 
labor. 

“For example, you will have to worship the gods, 
if you wish them to be propitious to you. If you 
desire the love of friends, you will have to pay for 
it by service. You will have to promote the interest 
of any city whose honors you seek. If you desire 
your merit to be admired by all of Greece, you will 
have to earn that admiration by furthering the 
advantage of Greece. If you want the earth to 
supply you liberally with fruit, you will have to cul- 
tivate it. If you wish to derive profit from herds 
of cattle, you will have to tend them properly. If 


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you are eager to make your fortune, to insure your 
friends from enslavement, and to subdue your 
enemies, you will have to learn the art of war from 
experts, and practice it successfully. If you desire 
bodily health and vigor, you will have to train your 
body to respond to your mind by the discipline of 
exertion and toil. In other words, you will have to 
pay for whatever you get.” 

Interrupting her, Vice urged, “Hercules, notice 
how difficult and tedious is the road by which that 
woman would lead you to enjoyment. Compare it 
with the ease and shortness of my path to perfect 
happiness I” 

“Abandoned creature that you are!” rejoined 
Virtue, You know that you do not possess any real 
good. Unwilling as you are to do anything for 
the attainment of your desires, the pleasures to which 
you have access are not real. Not even waiting for 
the natural appetites of the body, you gorge your- 
self with dainties before you are able to digest them. 
You eat before you are hungry, you drink before 
you are thirsty. The only artists you seek are 
cooks, the only treasures you hoard are fancy wines. 
Your only effort is to get things out of season. 

Not even sleep, such as is natural, satisfies you. 
You expend your ingenuity in devising soft mat- 
tresses, and in putting rockers to your couches. You 


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seek all this because the sleep you indulge in is not 
the result of labor, but the pastime of idleness, sleep- 
ing away the most useful part of the day. 

“Though you are one of the immortals, the gods 
have cast you out from their society. Even the good 
among mankind despise you. You have never heard 
the sweetest of all possible sounds, namely, praise 
of yourself. You have been deprived of the sweet- 
est of all sights, for you have never beheld a single 
meritorious action by your own hand. Who would 
believe any promise of yours? Who would assist 
you, were you in want of anything? 

“What decent person would join your band of 
revellers ? These revellers become impotent in body, 
while young; and when old, they become impotent 
in mind. Their youth is spent so idly that they be- 
come stout; their old age, when indeed they should 
achieve repose, is harassed by need and expedients. 
Of what they have done they are ashamed; by what 
they have to do they are disgraced. Having run 
through all pleasures possible to them in youth, 
nothing remains for them in age but afflictions. 

“As to me, I am the companion of divinities. I 
am the associate of virtuous men. No honorable 
deed, divine or human, is ever done without me. 
Most of all by the deities am I honored. It is the 
best men of all classes by whom I am welcomed; to 


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artisans, I am a cherished helper; to householders, 
I am a faithful guardian of their interests. To ser- 
vants, I am a friendly comrade. A benign pro- 
moter of the labors of peace, a virile auxiliary in the 
stress of war, I am to all a faithful friend. 

“To my friends especially am I gracious. As 
they refrain from food till drawn by genuine 
appetite, they enjoy it to the full. Far sweeter 
than the sleep of the idle is theirs; neither do they 
grieve if they are deprived of some portion of it, 
nor do they neglect any duty for its sake. The 
young are pleased with the praises of the old, while 
the old treasure the honors of the young. Their 
former actions they remember with pleasure, their 
present activities are crowned with success. Through 
my influence they are dear to the divinity, beloved 
by their friends, honored by their country. At 
the destined end of their life, they do not lie in 
oblivion and dishonor, but flourish forever in the 
memory of mankind by being celebrated in songs of 
praise. 

“It is by such a course of conduct, O well-born 
Hercules, that you may secure the most exalted 
happiness!” 


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Wi)t l&egulting Xtfe of ||trniles( 


o Hercules chose Virtue, and 
through all the difficulties of his 
career, though often temporarily 
losing hold of his Guide, neverthe- 
less always found her again. He 
achieved Twelve great Labors, 
which have been handed down to us to excite our 
admiration : 

He killed the Nemean lion, strangling him with 
his own hands. The Lernean hydra had nine 
heads, but Hercules cut them all off, and he poisoned 
his arrows in its bile. The Arcadian stag had 
golden antlers and brazen feet. He pursued it for 
a whole year, and finally carried it home on his 
shoulders. 

Mount Erymanthus was infested with a boar. 
Hercules waited till the winter deprived it of food, 
stalked it over the snow, and drove it into a net. 
The stables of King Augeas held three thousand 
oxen, and had not been cleaned for thirty years. 
Hercules cleansed them in a single day, by leading 
the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to flow through them. 
Mars, the god of war had had brought up, in the 



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Stymphalian swamp, vultures with brazen claws, 
wings and beaks, who used their feathers as arrows, 
and ate human flesh. He frightened them away by 
a brazen rattle, and killed them with his poisoned 
arrows. 

The island of Crete was infested with a wild 
bull. Hercules cornered it, and carried it off on 
his shoulders. King Diomedes fed his mares with 
human flesh. Hercules caught them, fed their 
master to them, after which they became perfectly 
tame. Then he overcame Hippolyte, queen of the 
Amazons, or women-soldiers, and carried off her 
girdle. 

Next he was forced by Eurystheus to fetch the 
oxen of Geryon, a monster with three bodies, and 
guarded by a two-headed dog. In the course of 
finding these he came to the Strait of Gibraltar, 
on each side of which he erected a pillar so that 
that Strait became known as the “Pillars of Her- 
cules.” Next he was sent to fetch the Apples of 
the Hesperides. Only a certain giant named Atlas 
could get them, so Hercules offered to take his 
place at holding on his back the vault of heaven, 
which the giant Atlas (the Atlas Mountains) sup- 
ported. When Atlas was freed, he fetched the 
apples, but refused to undertake that terrible load 


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again; but by a stratagem Hercules released him- 
self. Cerberus was the three-headed dog who 
guarded the fabulous regions of Tartarus, the 
Greek hell. Hercules brought him up to King 
Eurystheus, and took him back. He could not have 
done this without the active assistance of two 
divinities, Ares and Athene. 

In spite of his strength, Hercules was unfortunate 
in love, and he died by the treachery of a woman 
he loved. After death he was taken up to heaven, 
and thus after having been a hero, he became a 
demi-god, and finally one of the immortals. 

It will be seen that most of the Labors of Her- 
cules consisted in what is represented in modern 
times by house-work and the getting of provisions. 
It takes a great deal of virtue sometimes to do 
these simple homely duties well and cheerfully. 


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